gallows bird

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged. archaic
    — Everybody along Long Wharf knows you called him a gallows bird. He's not used to it.

词形变化

gallows birds plural gallows-bird alternative gallowsbird alternative

词源

From gallows + bird. Compare German construction Galgenvogel (literally “gallows-fowl" or "gallows-bird”), and French gibier de potence, as well as similar English jailbird.
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