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▪ I. sparrer1 colloq.|ˈspɑːrə(r)|
[f. spar v.2]
One who spars or boxes. Also fig.
1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 92 The parties were rival sparrers in the North. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 2 The ‘Courier’ and..the ‘Morning Chronicle’, those sparrers in double-padded gloves. 1862Thackeray Philip vii, Cinqbars was a pretty sparrer—but no stamina. 1886B. Shaw Cash. Byron's Prof. Prol. iii, He says you're only a sparrer, and that you'd fall down with fright if you was put into a twenty-four foot ring.
▪ II. sparrer2|ˈspærə(r)|
repr. dial. pronunc. of sparrow; also as first element of sparrow-grass.
1884[see Negro 1 d]. 1935in Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vii. 153 He seen a sparrer sittin' on a dead limb of a tree. 1961John o' London's 19 Oct. 447/1 Cloak-and-dagger intellectuals, or game little cockney sparrers. 1970N. Streatfeild Thursday's Child xxiii. 156 That Ebeneezer we 'ave to 'elp..'asn't got no more brains than a sparrer. 1979R. Cassilis Arrow of God iii. ix. 78 A dark-skinned..dhoti-clad cockney sparrer. |