Jailbird

Definition: Jailbird

Jailbird

Noun

1. A person serving a prison sentence.

Date "jailbird" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms: Jailbird

Synonyms: con (n), convict (n), gaolbird (n), inmate (n). (additional references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Jailbird (1920)

Jailbird in Borrowed Feathers (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Crystals and Cobwebs and Jailbird Blues (reference) Jailbird (reference) Jailbird (Who Killed Peggy Sue, No. 4) (reference) Jailbird [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Longarm and the Kansas Jailbird (Longarm, No 243) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Jailbird Rock (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Jailbird [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Jailbird" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Jailbird" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.91%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "jailbird"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i dënuar disa herë, i burgosur (con, confined, gaolbird, imprisoned, inmate, jailed, prisoner). (various references)

Arabic		‏السجين (gaol-bird, prisoner). (various references)

Bulgarian		рецидивист (gaol-bird, recidivist, repeater), затворник (gaol-bird, inmate, lag, prisoner). (various references)

Czech		vìzeò (captive, convict, detainee, gaolbird, inmate, prisoner), kriminálník (criminal, gaolbird). (various references)

Farsi		محبوس (Convict), زندانی (Inmate, Prisoner), جنایتکار (Criminal). (various references)

French		récidiviste. (various references)

German		knastbruder (con), Häftling (detainee, Linnet, prisoner). (various references)

Greek		νύν ή πρώην κατάδικοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		אסיר לשעבר. (various references)

Hungarian		börtöntöltelék (caitiff, gaol-bird, lag, yardbird). (various references)

Italian		carcerato (gaolbird, inmate, lag, prisoner). (various references)

Manx		shenn-phryssoonagh (gaolbird, lag), kimmagh (convict, criminal, culprit, detainee, felon, offender). (various references)

Pig Latin		ailbirdjay

Portuguese		detento (gaolbird). (various references)

Russian		арестант (arrested person, gaolbird, gaol-bird, prisoner). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zatvorenik (gaolbird, prisoner), bivši zatvorenik. (various references)

Spanish		presidiario (convict, inmate, lag), delincuente empedernido. (various references)

Swedish		fånge (captive, capture, gaolbird, lag, prisoner), fängelsekund (con, gaolbird, lag). (various references)

Thai		คนขี้คุก (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		hapishane kuşu (gaolbird), hapishane gediklisi. (various references)

Ukrainian		рецидивіст (canary bird, criminal, old offender), в'язень (bird, gaol-bird, prisoner), запеклий злочинець (gaol-bird), арештант (canary bird, charge, gaol-bird). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carcere, carcerem, carceribus, carceris, carcerum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "jailbird": jailbirds. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Jailbird" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dalibard, Jalilabad. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-i-j-l-r"
	-2 letters: bridal, ribald.
	-3 letters: alibi, biali, braid, brail, drail, iliad, laird, liard, libra, libri, lidar, rabid, radii.
	-4 letters: abri, arid, aril, bail, bald, bard, bird, birl, brad, darb, dial, dirl, drab, drib, ilia, irid, jail, jarl, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar, lira, liri, raid, rail, rial.
	-5 letters: aid, ail, air, alb, arb, bad, bal, bar.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-i-j-l-r"
	+1 letter: jailbirds.
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