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单词 spurgie
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spurgien.

Brit. /ˈspəːɡi/, U.S. /ˈspərɡi/, Scottish English /ˈspʌrɡɪ/
Forms: 1800s– spurgie, 1900s– spurkie (Orkney).
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: spurg n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: Probably < spurg n. (although this is first attested later) + -y suffix6. Compare later spuggy n.
Scottish (chiefly north-eastern).
The house sparrow. Cf. spuggy n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Passer > passer domesticus (sparrow)
sparrowc725
phipc1400
Philipa1500
house sparrow1653
spug1808
sprug1815
spruggie1845
spurgie1849
spadger1862
spur1866
spuggy1874
spurg1882
gutter-bird1896
sparrer1935
1849 ‘J. Raw’ Cause & Cure of Human Misery 17 How to slaughter Spurgies by the score.
a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 189 To snare The spurgies wi' a trap o' bricks, an' water-wags wi' hair.
1901 G. Sim in A. I. McConnochie Bk. of Ellon 46 House-Sparrow... Who does not know the ‘Spurgie’?
1955 W. P. Milne Eppie Elrick xxvii. 251 Nooadays..it's [sc. hair] a' sklaikit ower wi grey an' marlt wi fite like a spurgie.
1996 S. Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 26 Fusslin an chirpin tae ane anither like mirky spurgies.
2015 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 48 A fair flock o their feather't freens includin the usual spurgies.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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