cock-sparrow

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Noun

cock-sparrow (plural cock-sparrows)

A male sparrow.
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

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