{"id":2991,"date":"2010-05-28T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:57:15","slug":"epouvantail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9pouvantail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/epouvantail.mp3\">\u00e9pouvantail<\/a><\/strong> (nf) <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>objet, mannequin dispos\u00e9 dans les champs, dans les arbres, pour effrayer les oiseaux et les faire fuir (scarecrow)<\/li>\n<li>famili\u00e8rement personne pr\u00e9sentant un aspect ext\u00e9rieur repoussant (bogey, bugbear)<\/li>\n<li>quelqu&#8217;un ou quelque chose qui effraie sans raison (fright)<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.le-dictionnaire.com\/definition.php?mot=epouvantail\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For some reason we were talking about scarecrows or <em>\u00e9pouvantails<\/em> at the French conversation group last night. It&#8217;s not a word that comes up in conversation very often, but I like the sound of it.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00e9pouvantable = terrible, appalling, dreadful<\/li>\n<li>\u00e9pouvantablement = terribly, appallingly, dreadfully<\/li>\n<li>\u00e9pouvante = terror, fear<br \/>\n  &#8211; saisi d&#8217;\u00e9pouvante = terror-stricken<br \/>\n  &#8211; roman\/film d&#8217;\u00e9pouvante = horror story\/film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words for scarecrow in other languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese &#8211; \u7a3b\u8349\u4eba (d\u00e0o\u200bc\u01ceo\u200br\u00e9n\u200b) = &#8220;straw man&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>German &#8211; Vogelscheuche (bird shooer); Strohmann (straw man); Strohpuppe (straw doll\/puppet)<\/li>\n<li>Irish &#8211; babhd\u00e1n &#8211; also means bogey man<\/li>\n<li>Italian &#8211; spaventapasseri = &#8220;scare sparrows&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Japanese &#8211; \u304b\u304b\u3057 [\u9e7f\u9a5a] (kakashi) = &#8220;deer surpriser&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Spanish &#8211; espantap\u00e1jaros = &#8220;bird scarer&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Welsh &#8211; bwgan brain = &#8220;crows bogey\/spook&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e9pouvantail (nf) objet, mannequin dispos\u00e9 dans les champs, dans les arbres, pour effrayer les oiseaux et les faire fuir (scarecrow) famili\u00e8rement personne pr\u00e9sentant un aspect ext\u00e9rieur repoussant (bogey, bugbear) quelqu&#8217;un ou quelque chose qui effraie sans raison (fright) [source] For some reason we were talking about scarecrows or \u00e9pouvantails at the French conversation group last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,107,111,116,127,128,129,10,64,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-italian","category-japanese","category-language","category-spanish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}