spadger

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spadger

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Originally British dialect (1850s), from spadge (fronted variant of northern dialect spag) + -er. The northern dialect term spag is a derhoticised form of Scots spurg (“sparrow”), from spur (from Old Norse spǫrr (“sparrow”), suffixless cognate of Old English spearwa) + diminutive suffix -ock, with loss of vowel and voicing of -k to -g after r.

noun spadgers

colloquial, dialectal A sparrow. Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.
colloquial A boy. He laughs and says, “My, you sure talk brash, for such a little spadger.”

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@misc{spadger_2026,
  title = {spadger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spadger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}