different between spuggy vs sparrow

English

Alternative forms

• spuggie

Noun

spuggy (plural spuggies)

1. (Geordie, Teesside, Scotland) sparrow

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [1]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English sparwe, sparowe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparw?, from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European *sp?r (“sparrow”).

Cognate with Dutch spreeuw (“starling”), Alemannic German Spar (“sparrow”), German Sperling (“sparrow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål spurv (“sparrow”), Norwegian Nynorsk sporv (“sparrow”), Swedish sparv (“sparrow”), Breton frao (“crow”), Tocharian A sp?r?ñ, Ancient Greek ??? (psár, “starling”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?spæ???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?spæ?o?/, /?sp??o?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -ær??

Noun

sparrow (plural sparrows)

1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
3. A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds.
4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
5. (Britain, chiefly London) A quick-witted, lively person. Often used in the phrase cockney sparrow.
   • 2005, Drama Faces: Martine McCutcheon, BBC

     Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.

   • 1878, Ally Sloper's guide to the Paris exhibition, Charles Henry Ross, page 54:

     I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow.

Synonyms

• spadger, sparra, spoggy, spuggy

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