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Scarecrow vs Snowman - What's the difference?

scarecrow | snowman |

As nouns the difference between scarecrow and snowman

is that 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 while snowman is a humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).

As a verb scarecrow

is to splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.

scarecrow

English

(wikipedia scarecrow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 scarecrow set to frighten fools away. — Dryden.
  • A person clad in rags and tatters.
    • No eye hath seen such scarecrows . I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. — Shakespeare.
  • (UK, dialect) A bird, the black tern.

    • See also

    * bird-scarer * scarer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.
  • * 2006 , Ron S. King, Nowhere Street (page 109)
    • his small frame seeming scarecrowed in the over-large black coat.
  • * 2010 , Robert N. Chan, The Bad Samaritan
    • 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.

    snowman

    English

    Noun

  • A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
  • (slang) A playing card with the rank of nine.
  • (golf) A score of eight on a single hole.
  • (idiomatic) An attractive but heartless man (similar to ice queen).
  • * 1961 , in the song "The Great Snowman"
    • A few years ago there lived a lover By the name of Jimmy Jones Who really snowed the girls and left them cold And gained the title of 'The Great Snowman'.

    Antonyms

    * snowwoman

    Hypernyms

    * snow figure, snowperson

    Derived terms

    * abominable snowman * snowman abnormality * snowman sign

    Related terms

    * snow angel

    See also

    * iceman *

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English nouns with irregular plurals