Sparrow vs X - What's the difference?
sparrow | x |
The house sparrow, Passer domesticus ; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds.
Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
(UK, chiefly, London) A quick-witted, lively person. Often used in the phrase cockney sparrow .
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* 1878 , Ally Sloper's guide to the Paris exhibition , Charles Henry Ross, p. 54
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a proper noun sparrow
is .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.sparrow
English
(wikipedia sparrow)Noun
(en noun)Drama Faces: Martine McCutcheon, BBC
- Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.
- I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow .