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spadger

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Definition of spadger

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (colloquial, dialectal)A sparrow.
    “Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.”
    “The broadcasting blokes are twittering away like spadgers over there.”
    “'If you think spadgers is easy,' the father said, 'go get yourself a jenny wren. Jenny wrens is 'alf the size of spadgers and they never sit still for one second. Get yourself a jenny wren before you start shootin' yer mouth off about 'ow clever you is.'”
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noun

  1. (colloquial, dialectal)A sparrow.
    “Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.”
    “The broadcasting blokes are twittering away like spadgers over there.”
    “'If you think spadgers is easy,' the father said, 'go get yourself a jenny wren. Jenny wrens is 'alf the size of spadgers and they never sit still for one second. Get yourself a jenny wren before you start shootin' yer mouth off about 'ow clever you is.'”
  2. (colloquial)A boy.
    “He laughs and says, “My, you sure talk brash, for such a little spadger.””

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Etymology

Originally British dialect (1850s), from spadge (fronted variant of northern dialect spag) + -er. The northern dialect term spag is a derhoticised form of Scots spurg (“sparrow”), from spur (from Old Norse spǫrr (“sparrow”), suffixless cognate of Old English spearwa) + diminutive suffix -ock, with loss of vowel and voicing of -k to -g after r.

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