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gallows-bird

gallows-bird is the alternative form of gallows bird.

Meaning of gallows bird

Noun

gallows bird (plural gallows birds)

  1. (archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.
    • Everybody along Long Wharf knows you called him a gallows bird. He's not used to it.1943, Esther Hoskins Forbes, Johnny Tremain

Forms of gallows-bird

pluralgallows-birds

Questions about gallows-bird

What is gallows-bird the alternative form of?
Gallows-bird is the alternative form of gallows bird.

Words near gallows-bird in the dictionary

  1. gallows gods
  2. gallows humor
  3. gallows humour
  4. gallows tree
  5. gallows trees
  6. gallows-bird
  7. gallows-birds
  8. gallows-bitts
  9. gallowsbird
  10. gallowsbirds
  11. gallowses

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