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sparrow-fart (uncountable) (複数形 attested only as sparrowfarts)
- (uncountable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A time very early in the day; dawn.
- 2005, Alexander Fullerton, Non-Combatants, Hachette UK, unnumbered page:
- 2008, Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?, page 324:
- It felt unnaturally early, sparrowfart time of day by the feel and sound of it.
- (countable) A person or thing of no consequence.
- 1965, Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, published 2011, unnumbered page:
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The sense is also rendered in non-idiomatic constructions such as “when the sparrow farts.”
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sparrow fart
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2013/08/04 19:44 UTC 版)
sparrowfart
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2010/09/27 01:08 UTC 版)
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Has the folk etymology of being the time of day when the birds (including sparrows) first wake up, and presumably fart.
It has sometimes been thought to have originally been an Australian expression, and 'A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English' by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale does list sparrow's crow as an Australian euphemism. They list sparrow-fart as both daybreak, in colloquial use since before 1910, and popularised during WWI. Also as used in James Joyce's Ulysses meaning an inconsequential person.
It is included in Carr's Craven Dialect (1828) as from Yorkshire, with the definition given as 'break of day', according to Nigel Rees in 'A Word In Your Shell-like'.
Probably originates from an incorrect translation from the Urdu sawayray, meaning early, as used by members of the British Army since time immemorial.
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- "I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body." No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam (page 111) by Patti Walkuski (1993) [1]
- "Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talkin about politics they know as much about as my backside." Ulysses Episode 18 Penelope by James Joyce (1922).
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