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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cock-sparrow en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. A male sparrow.
  2. A quarrelsome, cocky person
    • Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

Forms

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cock sparrow alternative lexicographic
cocksparrow alternative lexicographic
cock-sparrows Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (3)

fr moineau mâle (a male sparrow) · ro vrăbioi (a male sparrow) · bg врабец (a male sparrow)