sparrow-fart

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sparrow-fart

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From sparrow + fart. In the dawn sense, apparently from a UK dialect (Yorkshire) from before 1828.

noun sparrow-farts · sparrowfart · sparrow fart · sparrow's fart

  1. Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang, uncountable A time very early in the day; dawn. “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”

    Similar: cockcrow

  2. countable A person or thing of no consequence. […] Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talking about politics they know as much about as my backside […]

Similar: crack of dawn, sunrise, sunup, morning, loser, waste of space

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noun very early in the day

Русскийспозаранку spozaranku

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@misc{sparrow_fart_2026,
  title = {sparrow-fart},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sparrow-fart},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}