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.