spuggy

English

Alternative forms

• spuggie

Etymology

From spug +‎ -y.

Noun

spuggy (plural spuggies)

1. (Geordie, Teesside, Scotland) A sparrow. [from 19th c.]

References

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “SPUGGY”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• “Spuggy”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “spuggy”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.