Elegy vs Scarecrow - What's the difference?
elegy | scarecrow |
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.
(figuratively, pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
(figurative) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
A person clad in rags and tatters.
(UK, dialect) A bird, the black tern.
To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.
* 2006 , Ron S. King, Nowhere Street (page 109)
* 2010 , Robert N. Chan, The Bad Samaritan
As nouns the difference between elegy and scarecrow
is that elegy is a mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation while scarecrow is an effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.As a verb scarecrow is
to splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.elegy
English
(wikipedia elegy)Noun
(elegies)Synonyms
* dirge, threnodyCoordinate terms
* requiem – a piece of music played at a mass for the deadDerived terms
* elegiacSee also
* eulogy – similar sounding funeral wordAnagrams
*References
scarecrow
English
(wikipedia scarecrow)Noun
(en noun)- A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. — Dryden.
- No eye hath seen such scarecrows . I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. — Shakespeare.
See also
* bird-scarer * scarerVerb
(en verb)- his small frame seeming scarecrowed in the over-large black coat.
- An arctic wind whooshes down Columbus Avenue like the IRT express, catching her bags, scarecrowing her arms, and threatening to take her broad-brimmed hat downtown.
