scarecrow
noun
an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
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No," retorted Mabel, "being so scarecrowy and ghost-like already.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy