单词 | spurgie |
释义 | spurgien. Scottish (chiefly north-eastern). The house sparrow. Cf. spuggy n. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1849 |
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