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Definition of scarecrow : 1. A person clad in rags and tatters.
2. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
3. The black tern.

Synonyms:

straw man, rich, figurehead, bird-scarer, scarer, front man, tatterdemalion, nominal head, ragamuffin, strawman, better, front

Usage examples:

• But here comes one of these liver- complected, black- haired fellers, lookin’ for all the world like a pirate, and whispers in her ear he’ s got somethin’ in that carpetbag of his that nobody else has got, and that’ ll make Mrs. General Jupiter Jones, or some other of the Smythe bosom friends, look like a last summer’ s scarecrow.
• The palace of the Scarecrow was not far distant, on the banks of a river, and this palace was in the shape of an immense ear of corn. - "Little Wizard Stories of Oz", L. Frank Baum.
• I can't act dressed like a scarecrow. - "Fruits of Culture", Leo Tolstoy.