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На следующий день в деревне бросили пить абсолютно все. The following day, everyone in the village gave up drinking entirely. 🔢Пугало (пугала) (neut.noun) 😄Declension [pu-ga-la (pu-ga-la)] Scarecrow(s) 🔻Its purpose is to scare away birds from crops. 🔻The noun comes from thr verb пугать (imperf.) to scare, to frighten. 🔢 Чучело (чучела) 😄Declension [chu-chi-la (chu-chi-la)] 1) A stuffed animal (taxidermy) 2) A scarecrow. It is a direct synonym forпугало. 3) An insult for a person. It means something like scarecrow, freak, or weirdo - implying the person is strange, unattractive, or dressed in rags. 🔻It comes from the word чуча, which is believed to derive from the name of a primeval people (чукча or чуд), who, according to legend, lived in the Perm region and Siberia. #useful_vocabulary #tricky_words 😎RCR | Support | Boost