Free house sparrows

[Diane]

spuggy (plural spuggies)
1.(Geordie) sparrow

A Geordie, that's me, not close enough to fall in the Tyne River or the Tees River for that matter, but a Geordie non the less!

[Finch_Breeder]

Ive got tons of sparrows and spotted turtle doves if anyone wants any.

[Craig52]

Noun

Australian boys call sparrows ‘spriggies’ in consequence.]


Amazing the amount of useless trivia you can dig up on parts of the net . . as against the 'valuable information' to be gathered on this site

Arthur,us Australian boys down south of the border,(commonly know as Mexicans)have always called sparrows "spadgies" Craig

[E Orix]

You mean Spidgies if you grew up on the right side of the Yarra

[Myzomela]

Well, I must have been born IN the Yarra because I have no idea what you guys are talking about...
..."spadgies", "spidgies"- what the???

We just called them sparrows!!

Maybe it's a generation thing

[vettepilot_6]

Well, I must have been born IN the Yarra because I have no idea what you guys are talking about...
..."spadgies", "spidgies"- what the???

We just called them sparrows!!

Maybe it's a generation thing

I agree What the???? bit like when I first moved to Mackay....Bicycles called Treadlys? Utes called Tillys? Peanut Butter called Peanut Paste? (its written on jar as peanut butter?) Kids a Highschool called their breaks Big Lunch and Little Lunch....Swimmers called Togs....

[arthur]

And ????? . . .

[desertbirds]

We always called them spoggies in Adelaide.

[MadOzzie]

Always Sprags in brisbane,

(By the way, they were stopped calling it peanut butter in Queensland as it contained no butter. Got caught up with the same mob (dairy farmers/ butter factories/their country party mates) who would not allow table margaine to be sold or packaged in paper like butter).

MadOzzie

[Finch_Breeder]

We always called them spoggies in Adelaide.

My dad used to call them spoggies.