cock-sparrow

English

Alternative forms

• cock sparrow, cocksparrow

Pronunciation

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Noun

cock-sparrow (plural cock-sparrows)

1. A male sparrow.
2. A quarrelsome, cocky person
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries.

Translations

a male sparrow

• Bulgarian: врабец m (vrabec)
• French: moineau mâle m
• Romanian: vrăbioi (ro) m