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gallowsbird

gallowsbird 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 gallowsbird

pluralgallowsbirds

Questions about gallowsbird

What is gallowsbird the alternative form of?
Gallowsbird is the alternative form of gallows bird.

Words near gallowsbird in the dictionary

  1. gallows tree
  2. gallows trees
  3. gallows-bird
  4. gallows-birds
  5. gallows-bitts
  6. gallowsbird
  7. gallowsbirds
  8. gallowses
  9. gallowsmaker
  10. gallowsmakers
  11. gallowsness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gallowsbird (page history and authors); gallows bird (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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