spadger

spadger means A sparrow. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

Etymology

Originally British dialect (1850s), from spadge (fronted variant of northern dialect spag) + -er. The northern dialect term spag is a derhoticised form of Scots spurg (“sparrow”), from spur (from Old Norse spǫrr (“sparrow”), suffixless cognate of Old English spearwa) + diminutive suffix -ock, with loss of vowel and voicing of -k to -g after r.

noun

A sparrow.“Genuine cockney ‘spadgers’ have appeared at Bulli. The little hoppers are spreading rapidly all over the colony.”
A boy.“He laughs and says, “My, you sure talk brash, for such a little spadger.””