scarecrow
意味
- かかし
- やせこけた人;ぼろをまとった人
例文
You look like a scarecrow.
かかしみたい。
It looks like a scarecrow.
かかしみたい。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
The noun is derived from scare (“to frighten, startle, terrify”) + crow (“bird of the genus Corvus”). The word displaced other terms such as bogle (now dialectal, dated), sewel or shewel, and shoy-hoy (perhaps imitative of the cry of crows). The verb is derived from the noun.