Thesaurus:gallows bird
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: someone who deserves to be hanged
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- crack-hemp (obsolete)
- crack-rope (obsolete)
- gallows [⇒ thesaurus] (colloquial, obsolete)
- gallows bird (archaic)
- hang dog (obsolete)
- hangdog (obsolete)
- hempie (obsolete, British dialect)
- scapegallows (obsolete)
- slip-halter (obsolete)
- wag-halter (obsolete)
Hypernyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- die by hanging [⇒ thesaurus]
- gallows [⇒ thesaurus]
- hangworthy [⇒ thesaurus]
- kill by hanging [⇒ thesaurus]
Further reading
[edit]- “gallows bird” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.