Hedge-bird

subs. (old).—See quot.

  1614.  JONSON, Bartholomew Fair, ii., 1. Out, you rogue, you HEDGE-BIRD, you pimp, you panier-man’s bastard, you.

  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew. HEDGE-BIRD, a Scoundrel or sorry Fellow.

  1726.  A New Canting Dictionary