spoggy

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspɒɡi/
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡi

Noun

spoggy (plural spoggies)

  1. (Australia) A sparrow.
    • 1978, Barbara Hanrahan, Where the Queens all Strayed‎, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 49:
      When the spoggy flew in at the window and thumped against the pane, Father couldn't touch it.
    • 1991, Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, number 31, Wollongong: University of Wollongong, page 96:
      A spoggy's nest and (this one's a bit hazy) a piece of cotton wool!
    • 2011, K. J. Cherry, A Piece of My Heart‎, →ISBN, page 68:
      Blue wrens and spoggies had been nibbling on the food they had left outside.
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