"gallowsbird" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1710, The Sale of Joseph:",
          "text": "Now leave my sight, begone, thou gallowsbird.",
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          "ref": "1881, Daniel O'Connell, “His Encounter With Biddy Moriarty”, in James Edward McGee, editor, The Glories of Ireland- Volume IV, page 205:",
          "text": "I'm none of your parry-bellygrums, you rascally gallowsbird ; you cowardly, sneaking, plate-lickin' bliggard",
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Stanley John Weyman, A Gentleman of France:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1953, Elsa Triolet, The Inspector of Ruins, page 12:",
          "text": "A gallowsbird's luck, that's what I had.",
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        "Alternative form of gallows bird"
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  "word": "gallowsbird"
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        {
          "ref": "1710, The Sale of Joseph:",
          "text": "Now leave my sight, begone, thou gallowsbird.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, Daniel O'Connell, “His Encounter With Biddy Moriarty”, in James Edward McGee, editor, The Glories of Ireland- Volume IV, page 205:",
          "text": "I'm none of your parry-bellygrums, you rascally gallowsbird ; you cowardly, sneaking, plate-lickin' bliggard",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1893, Stanley John Weyman, A Gentleman of France:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1953, Elsa Triolet, The Inspector of Ruins, page 12:",
          "text": "A gallowsbird's luck, that's what I had.",
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