Meaning of gallows bird | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.

archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“Everybody along Long Wharf knows you called him a gallows bird. He's not used to it.”

“The story of the man who bit off his father's nose for rearing him as a gallows bird is as old as Aesop, but no known source before Brant mentions the son's name.”

“Before me stood not Philippe but a gallows bird no respectable citizen would want to meet up with on a lonely road.”

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