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English
Etymology
From spug + -y.
Noun
spuggy (plural spuggies)
- (Geordie, Teesside, Scotland) A sparrow.
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, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F M T 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
- Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “spuggy”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.