spug
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Apparently an alteration of sprug, spurg.
Noun[edit]
spug (plural spugs)
- (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[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
spug (plural spugs)
References[edit]
- “spug” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.