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sparra

sparra

See also: sparrà and spärra

English

Noun

sparra (plural sparras)

  1. (London, chiefly Cockney) A sparrow.
    • 2008, Jon Wise, Double trouble as soap won't wash, People
      Jason dons a screwed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra, unfortunately goes posh.
    • 1859, Samuel Carter Hall, The book of the Thames: from its rise to its fall, p. 351
      "Ah ! ah ! the fun was, one of the company said it was as like a sparra as one pea is like another; how I did laugh to myself, for she grew quite offended like, and insisted that this was a light brown bird, but that a sparra was next to black"

Scots

Noun

sparra (plural sparras)

  1. sparrow

Swedish

Verb

sparra

  1. To spar with someone (when training for boxing or martial arts).

Conjugation

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