Today's wwftd is... crowkeeper

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msesheta

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Jan 18, 2012, 9:39:08 AM1/18/12

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The worthless word for the day is: crowkeeper

[crow + keeper]

obs. : a person employed to scare off crows

We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper..
- Wm Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597)

It was the technology of the scarecrow, presumably, that made the crowkeeper obsolete.
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