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Sparra vs Sparry - What's the difference?

sparra | sparry |

As a verb sparra

is to block.

As an adjective sparry is

abundant in spar (the mineral).

sparra

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (London, chiefly, Cockney) A sparrow.
  • * 2008 , Jon Wise, Double trouble as soap won't wash , People
    • Jason dons a screwed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra , unfortunately goes posh.
  • * 1859 , Samuel Carter Hall, The book of the Thames: from its rise to its fall , p. 351
    • "Ah ! ah ! the fun was, one of the company said it was as like a sparra' as one pea is like another; how I did laugh to myself, for she grew quite offended like, and insisted that this was a light brown bird, but that a '''sparra was next to ''black "
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    sparry

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • abundant in spar (the mineral)
  • resembling spar (the mineral)

    • Derived terms

    * sparry iron * sparry limestone