spoggyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɒɡi/
• 韻: -ɒɡi

名詞

spoggy (複数形 spoggies)

1. (Australia) A sparrow.
   • 1978, Barbara Hanrahan, Where the Queens all Strayed‎^[1], Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     When the spoggy flew in at the window and thumped against the pane, Father couldn't touch it.

   • 1991, Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, number 31, Wollongong: University of Wollongong, page 96:

     A spoggy's nest and (this one's a bit hazy) a piece of cotton wool!

   • 2011, K. J. Cherry, A Piece of My Heart‎^[2], →ISBN, page 68:

     Blue wrens and spoggies had been nibbling on the food they had left outside.