spadgern.

/ˈspadʒə/

Etymology: Fanciful alteration of sparrow n.

dialect or colloquial.

1. A sparrow. Also attributive.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Passer > passer domesticus (sparrow)

sparrowc725

phipc1400

Philipa1500

house sparrow1653

spug1808

sprug1815

spruggie1845

spurgie1849

spadger1862

spur1866

spuggy1874

spurg1882

gutter-bird1896

sparrer1935

1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 417 ‘Spadger-pie’ is an article of diet occasionally.

1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London 59 The sparrow, or ‘spadger’, is a friend to the farmer.

2. transferred. A boy. colloquial. rare.

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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

1899 Captain II. 273/2 If we've got to take these three young spadgers..we shall want something bigger'n this here gig.

1978 K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China i. iii. 29 ‘See here, young spadger,’ he said..‘if you should be a little short of tin..come and spend a night or two at Great Coram Street.’

Derivatives

spadger v. rare (intransitive) (a) to catch sparrows or other small birds, to go sparrow-netting; (b) figurative to play or frolic about in the manner of a sparrow.

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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]

floxec1200

ragea1275

to dance antics1545

rig1570

to keep (also play) reaks1573

wanton1582

wantonize1592

frolic1593

wantonize1611

hoit1613

mird?c1625

to play about1638

freak1663

romp1665

rump1680

ramp1735

jinket1742

skylark1771

to cut up1775

rollick1786

hoity-toity1790

fun1802

lark1813

gammock1832

haze1848

marlock1863

train1877

horse1901

mollock1932

spadger1939

grab-ass1957

the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (intransitive)] > snare or net > small birds

spadger1939

1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise ix. 171 In winter in the 'eighties the youths and big boys of the hamlet would go out on dark nights ‘spadgering’. For this a large net upon four poles was carried... When they came to a spot where a flock of sparrows or other small birds was roosting, the net was dropped over the hedge..and the birds enclosed were slaughtered.

1967 Listener 7 Sept. 315/2 Tommy Steele spadgered larkily about among the zoomorphs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	spadger
释义	spadgern. /ˈspadʒə/ Etymology: Fanciful alteration of sparrow n. dialect or colloquial. 1. A sparrow. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > genus Passer > passer domesticus (sparrow) sparrowc725 phipc1400 Philipa1500 house sparrow1653 spug1808 sprug1815 spruggie1845 spurgie1849 spadger1862 spur1866 spuggy1874 spurg1882 gutter-bird1896 sparrer1935 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 417 ‘Spadger-pie’ is an article of diet occasionally. 1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London 59 The sparrow, or ‘spadger’, is a friend to the farmer. 2. transferred. A boy. colloquial. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 1899 Captain II. 273/2 If we've got to take these three young spadgers..we shall want something bigger'n this here gig. 1978 K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China i. iii. 29 ‘See here, young spadger,’ he said..‘if you should be a little short of tin..come and spend a night or two at Great Coram Street.’ Derivatives spadger v. rare (intransitive) (a) to catch sparrows or other small birds, to go sparrow-netting; (b) figurative to play or frolic about in the manner of a sparrow. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)] floxec1200 ragea1275 to dance antics1545 rig1570 to keep (also play) reaks1573 wanton1582 wantonize1592 frolic1593 wantonize1611 hoit1613 mird?c1625 to play about1638 freak1663 romp1665 rump1680 ramp1735 jinket1742 skylark1771 to cut up1775 rollick1786 hoity-toity1790 fun1802 lark1813 gammock1832 haze1848 marlock1863 train1877 horse1901 mollock1932 spadger1939 grab-ass1957 the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (intransitive)] > snare or net > small birds spadger1939 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise ix. 171 In winter in the 'eighties the youths and big boys of the hamlet would go out on dark nights ‘spadgering’. For this a large net upon four poles was carried... When they came to a spot where a flock of sparrows or other small birds was roosting, the net was dropped over the hedge..and the birds enclosed were slaughtered. 1967 Listener 7 Sept. 315/2 Tommy Steele spadgered larkily about among the zoomorphs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1862
随便看	to hold together to hold touch to hold true to hold tug to hold under awe to hold under one's abandon to hold under one's girdle to hold up to hold up by the chin to hold up oil to hold up one's head to hold up one's nose to hold up the parade to hold wag to hold waken to hold ward to hold way to hold weight with to hold with to hold with arch for to hold with arch of to hold with arch on to hold with his bill in the water to hold with the hare and hunt with the hounds to hold with the hare and run with the hounds