spadger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sparrow. colloquial,dialectal
    — Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.
  2. A boy. colloquial
    — He laughs and says, “My, you sure talk brash, for such a little spadger.”

词形变化

spadgers plural

词源

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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