spoggy

spoggy

English

Alternative forms

• spoggie

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.