sparrern.1
/ˈspɑːrə/ colloquial.
One who spars or boxes. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer
buffeter1483
pugil1646
cuffer1662
boxer1672
pugilistc1740
setter-to1810
miller1812
sparrer1814
pet1825
pugilistic1827
slogger1829
fist-mate1834
peeler1852
pug1858
scrapper1874
slugger1877
slogster1881
basher1882
fisticuffer1888
ring man1899
ringster1902
pucker1919
1814 Sporting Mag. 44 92 The parties were rival sparrers in the North.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 2 The ‘Courier’ and..the ‘Morning Chronicle’, those sparrers in double-padded gloves.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. vii. 125 Cinqbars was a pretty sparrer—but no stamina.
1886 G. B. Shaw Cashel Byron's Profession Prol. iii He says you're only a sparrer, and that you'd fall down with fright if you was put into a twenty-four foot ring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
sparrern.2
/ˈsparə/ regional.
= sparrow n.
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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
1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vii. 153 He seen a sparrer sittin' on a dead limb of a tree.
1961 John o' London's 19 Oct. 447/1 Cloak-and-dagger intellectuals, or game little cockney sparrers.
1970 N. Streatfeild Thursday's Child xxiii. 156 That Ebeneezer we 'ave to 'elp..'asn't got no more brains than a sparrer.
1979 ‘R. Cassilis’ Arrow of God iii. ix. 78 A dark-skinned..dhoti-clad cockney sparrer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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