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"etymology_text": "Apparently an alteration of sprug, spurg.",
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"ref": "2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 178",
"text": "Birds on the ground. Birds of different varieties. Crows and gulls and spugs.",
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}
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"A sparrow."
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"(chiefly Ireland, Scotland, England regional) A sparrow."
],
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"etymology_text": "Apparently an alteration of sprug, spurg.",
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