spug

English

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of sprug, spurg.

Noun

spug (plural spugs)

  1. (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, England regional) A sparrow. [from 19th c.]
    • 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 178:
      Birds on the ground. Birds of different varieties. Crows and gulls and spugs.

Scots

Alternative forms

Noun

spug (plural spugs)

  1. sparrow

References

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