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

• sparra
• spur
• spuggie
• speug

Noun

spug (plural spugs)

1. sparrow

References

• “spug”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.