What does gallows bird mean?

gallows bird means "a person who deserves to be hanged".

Is gallows bird a common word?

gallows bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Gallows bird — meaning and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a person who deserves to be hanged
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Questions about gallows bird

What does gallows bird mean?: gallows bird means "a person who deserves to be hanged".
Is gallows bird a common word?: gallows bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gallows bird come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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