SPARROW
ADJECTIVES
1782 — PASSERINE of about the size of a sparrow
1876 — PASSERICIDAL sparrow-killing → obs.
NOUNS
1000 — HAYSUGGE the hedge sparrow → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1400 — PHIP a name for a sparrow; also, the chirp of a sparrow → obs.
1440 — SUGGE the hedge sparrow → obs.
1486 — HOST a ‘company’ of sparrows → obs.
1500 — PHILIP a name for a sparrow → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1578 — COCK SPARROW a male sparrow
1611 — DIKESMOWLER the hedge sparrow → obs.
1653 — HOUSE SPARROW a common brown and grey sparrow, which nests in the eaves and roofs of houses
1744 — DICKY BIRD any small bird, as a sparrow, robin, etc. → colloq.
1802 — CUDDY the hedge sparrow → Eng. dial.
1808 — SPUG the house sparrow → chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
1815 — SPRUG the house sparrow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1821 — HEDGE-CHAT the hedge sparrow
1825 — HEDGE-ACCENTOR the hedge sparrow → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1826 — HEDGE-WARBLER the hedge sparrow
1829 — SHUFFLE-WING the hedge sparrow
1834 — ISAAC a hedge sparrow → Eng. dial.
1845 — SPROGGIE — SPROOGIE — SPROWGIE — SPRUGGIE the house sparrow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1849 — SPARROWLING a young sparrow
1849 — SPURGIE — SPURKIE the house sparrow → Sc.
1856 — PEABODY — PEABODY BIRD the white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis, of North America, whose usual call comprises two notes followed by three triple notes supposed to resemble repetition of the name ‘Peabody’
1862 — SPADGER a sparrow
1865 — SPARROWCIDE the destruction of sparrows
1866 — SPUR the house sparrow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1867 — CHIPPER (BIRD) a sparrow → US
1870 — MOSSIE the Cape sparrow → S. Afr. colloq.
1874 — SPOGGIE — SPOOGIE the house sparrow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1874 — SPUGGIE — SPUGGY the house sparrow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1882 — SPURG the house sparrow → Sc.
1884 — MOSSIE a sparrow → S. Afr.
1884 — SILVER-TONGUE the song-sparrow → US
1885 — EASING-SPARROW the common house-sparrow, Parus domesticus → Eng. dial.
1889 — SMOKY the hedge sparrow → Eng. dial.
1891 — TWIT-TWAT the house-sparrow
1892 — DIKER the hedge sparrow → Eng. dial.
1896 — GUTTER-BIRD the sparrow
..20C — GUTTER PERCHER the sparrow one sees in towns and cities
1900 — EASING-BIRDS sparrows and other birds which build their nests under the eaves of a house → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1909 — SNOWBIRD a sparrow → Amer. dial.
1917 — EVERYBODY’S DARLING the song sparrow, Melospiza melodia → Amer. dial.
1917 — SPARROW-BUB a fledgling sparrow → Eng. dial.
1921 — MICKEY a sparrow → Amer. dial.
1931 — BOW AND ARROW a sparrow → UK Cockney rhyming sl.
1935 — SPARRER a sparrow → Eng. dial.
1946 — SPARROW-FALL a sparrow’s death → poetic usage
1951 — SPAG a sparrow → Aust. sl.
1954 — SHITBIRD English sparrow, a house sparrow → Amer. dial.
1966 — GRAY BIRD the common sparrow → Amer. dial.
1967 — HORSE-SHIT-EATER a house sparrow, the common sparrow → Amer. dial.
1967 — SHIT-EATER a house sparrow, the common sparrow → Amer. dial.
1968 — JOHNNY BULL the common sparrow → Amer. dial.
1969 — CHIT BIRD a sparrow → Amer. dial.
1970 — CRUMB CATCHER a sparrow → Amer. dial.
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