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Meaning of scare-beggar | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A scarecrow.

obsolete

Examples

“He is the Terror of all the Deer and Poultry-Stealers in the Neighbourhood, and is ſo implacable a Perſecutor of Pochers^([sic]), that he keeps a Regiſter of all the Dogs and Guns in the Hundred, and is the Scare-Beggar of the Pariſh.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

scare-bug scare-crow scare-head scare-line scare-sleep scare-the-birds