spuggy
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]spuggy (plural spuggies)
- (Geordie, Teesside, Scotland) A sparrow. [from 19th c.]
References
[edit]- 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