gallows-birdn.

/ˈɡaləzbəːd/

Etymology: < gallows n. + bird n.

One who deserves to be hanged. Also occasionally, one who has been hanged.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > worthy of hanging

wickhals?a1400

crack-rope?a1500

stretch-hemp1532

man of death1535

slip-string1546

waghalter1546

hang-rope1570

rope-ripe1570

crack-halter1573

hempstring1573

wag-string1578

stretch-halter1583

gallows1598

halter-sack1598

wag-with1611

roper1615

gallows-climber1668

hang-string1675

gallows-face1725

gallows-bird1785

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging

wickhals?a1400

crack-rope?a1500

widdieneck?a1500

widdiefu?a1513

thevis neka1525

stretch-hemp1532

man of death1535

slip-string1546

waghalter1546

ropeful1567

gallows-clapper1570

hang-rope1570

rope-ripe1570

crack-halter1573

hempstring1573

wag-string1578

stretch-halter1583

gallows1598

halter-sack1598

wag-with1611

crack-hempa1616

roper1615

halter-sick1617

gallows-climber1668

hang-string1675

hempy1718

gallows-face1725

gallows-bird1785

hang-gallows1785

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Gallows bird, one that deserves hanging.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Gallows bird, a thief or pick-pocket; also one that associates with them.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 60 Had this been in another place, young gallows-bird, I had stowed the lugs out of thy head.

1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. i. 11 ‘It is ill to check sleep or sweat in a sick man’, said he. ‘I know that far, though I ne'er minced ape nor gallows-bird’.

1888 Harper's Mag. Feb. 415 The famous converted ‘gallows bird’..proclaims the good word in lamentable accents.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

单词	gallows-bird
释义	gallows-birdn. /ˈɡaləzbəːd/ Etymology: < gallows n. + bird n. One who deserves to be hanged. Also occasionally, one who has been hanged. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > worthy of hanging wickhals?a1400 crack-rope?a1500 stretch-hemp1532 man of death1535 slip-string1546 waghalter1546 hang-rope1570 rope-ripe1570 crack-halter1573 hempstring1573 wag-string1578 stretch-halter1583 gallows1598 halter-sack1598 wag-with1611 roper1615 gallows-climber1668 hang-string1675 gallows-face1725 gallows-bird1785 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging wickhals?a1400 crack-rope?a1500 widdieneck?a1500 widdiefu?a1513 thevis neka1525 stretch-hemp1532 man of death1535 slip-string1546 waghalter1546 ropeful1567 gallows-clapper1570 hang-rope1570 rope-ripe1570 crack-halter1573 hempstring1573 wag-string1578 stretch-halter1583 gallows1598 halter-sack1598 wag-with1611 crack-hempa1616 roper1615 halter-sick1617 gallows-climber1668 hang-string1675 hempy1718 gallows-face1725 gallows-bird1785 hang-gallows1785 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Gallows bird, one that deserves hanging. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Gallows bird, a thief or pick-pocket; also one that associates with them. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 60 Had this been in another place, young gallows-bird, I had stowed the lugs out of thy head. 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. i. 11 ‘It is ill to check sleep or sweat in a sick man’, said he. ‘I know that far, though I ne'er minced ape nor gallows-bird’. 1888 Harper's Mag. Feb. 415 The famous converted ‘gallows bird’..proclaims the good word in lamentable accents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1785
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