💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gallows bird"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| gallows-birdnoun | Alternative form of gallows bird. [(archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.] |
| gallowsbirdnoun | Alternative form of gallows bird. [(archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.] |
| gallowsnoun | A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. |
| crack-ropenoun | (obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird. |
| scapegallowsnoun | (colloquial, dated) A criminal who has narrowly escaped from being hanged. |
| gallowsnessnoun | (slang, rare, archaic) recklessness |
| slip-halternoun | (obsolete) Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged. |
| crackropenoun | (obsolete) Alternative form of crack-rope. [(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird.] |
| halter-sacknoun | (obsolete, derogatory) Someone fit to be hanged i.e. a scoundrel. |
| wag-halternoun | (obsolete) Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged. |
| sliphalternoun | (obsolete) Alternative form of slip-halter. [(obsolete) Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.] |
| hangeenoun | One who is executed by hanging. |
| waghalternoun | Alternative form of wag-halter. [(obsolete) Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged.] |
| hang dognoun | (climbing) The situation of hanging on the rope after falling off a climb. |
| yardbirdnoun | (chiefly US, slang) A chicken. |
| hanger and floggernoun | (UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favor of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment. |
| garroternoun | A person who strangles someone from behind. |
| crack-hempnoun | (obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged. |
| gaolbirdnoun | (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jailbird. |
| birdnoun | An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs. |
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