spug

English

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of sprug, spurg.

Noun

spug (plural spugs)

(chiefly Ireland, Scotland, England regional) A sparrow. [from 19th c.]
- 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 178:
  Birds on the ground. Birds of different varieties. Crows and gulls and spugs.

Scots

Alternative forms

Noun

spug (plural spugs)

sparrow

References

“spug” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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