gallowsbird

plural gallowsbirds

1. alternativeAlternative form of gallows bird.

   A gallowsbird's luck, that's what I had.

   1953, Elsa Triolet, The Inspector of Ruins, page 12

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   Now leave my sight, begone, thou gallowsbird.

   1710, The Sale of Joseph

   I'm none of your parry-bellygrums, you rascally gallowsbird ; you cowardly, sneaking, plate-lickin' bliggard

   1881, Daniel O'Connell, “His Encounter With Biddy Moriarty”, in James Edward McGee, editor, The Glories of Ireland- Volume IV, page 205

   An old black cloak nailed to the wall, and flapping to and fro in the draught like some dead gallowsbird, hung in front of the unglazed window.

   1893, Stanley John Weyman, A Gentleman of France