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ˈsparrow-grass, ˈsparrowgrass Now dial. or vulgar.
Also 7–9 sparagrass (7 sparragras), 8 -gras(se.
[Corruption of sparagus, assimilated to sparrow and grass.]
Asparagus.
α1664F. Hawkins Youths Behav. ii. 178 Prauns, or Sparagrass. Ibid., A dish of Sparagrass. 1711in Leader Rec. Burgery Sheffield (1897) 334 Paid a messinger for bringing sparagrasse from Doncaster. 1723Pres. St. Russia I. 151 Roses, Gilliflowers, and well-tasted Sparagras. 1764Foote Mayor of G. ii. Wks. 1799 I. 181, I should recommend the opening a new branch of trade; sparagrass, gentlemen, the manufacturing of sparagrass. 1801Southey in C. Southey Life II. 154 Sparagrass (it ought to be spelt so) and artichokes, good with plain butter.
β1649[see asparagus 1 δ]. c1685Three Merry Trav. in Bagford Ball. 52 Both Chickens and sparrow grass she did provide. 1712Addison Spect. No. 371 ⁋4 The Ducklins and Sparrow-grass were very good. 1734[see asparagus 1 δ]. 1819‘Rabelais the younger’ Abeillard & Heloisa 5 Some score hundred sparrow-grass, As it's now call'd by every ass. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xxxii, Mind me now, and take the tops of your sparrowgrass. 1865‘C. Bede’ Rook's Gard., etc. 96, I have heard the word sparrowgrass from the lips of a real Lady—but then she was in her seventies.
b. attrib., as sparrow-grass bed, sparrow-grass green, sparrow-grass plant.
1658in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Acc. (1908) 78 Paid..his gardiner that came with sparrowgrasse plants. c1700T. Houghton in Essex Rev. (1906) XV. 170 The side of the dwelling house which looks toward the sparagrass beds. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 28 Sparrow grass green—pale yellowish green with a mixture of grey and brown. |