10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPUGGIES»
Discover the use of
spuggies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spuggies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
By and large, most rivalry takes place among members of the same species and
most garden birds are quite happy being surrounded by spuggies - each has its
own way of getting a slice of the * cake. Greenfinches and siskins with their ...
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A.C. Swinburne and the Singing Word: New Perspectives on the ...
His use of words derived from Anglo-Saxon — often hard and monosyllabic —
meant that Bunting had to provide a glossary for words such as "oxter," "hoy," and
"spuggies," which would have proved incomprehensible to non-northerners.7 5 ...
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Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker
... could only endorse in death what he had in life, the value of silence, Frank's
message is more complex. Like much else in popular culture,'" his spuggies were
a secular version of the Resurrection: people are often Souls and Arseholes 109.
When Bunting translates Son los pasariellos del mal pelo exidos, an unascribed
epigraph to Briggflatts (N1421), as “The spuggies are fledged” matters are less
clear : “spuggies” is a Northumbrian form of a word occurring in Northern English
...
But in my northern childhood 'spuggies' (sparrows) was always pronounced '
spudgies'. Was it different in Northum- bria? And surely one of the striking
features of Briggflats is repetition of phonemes: 'Wetter, warmed, they watch / the
mason ...
John Lehmann, Alan Ross, 1989
and the poor little spuggies have to sit on the edge of the feast stealing a peck at
a stray seed, risking God knows what (and if He does, what's He doing about it?)
(and if He doesn't, He's not as all-knowing or as all-caring, as we think,) No, but I
...
(Spuggies are sparrows. Stinkers are starlings.) Besides the songy's (songthrush)
with two in, Spadge also knew where there was a swallow's with five in. 'Where?'
Ray demanded, having started another egg collection this year, same as ...
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The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland: 1800-1990
The spuggies are fledged. Like all prominent writers of popular fiction, Catherine
Cookson is held close by her readers, and no one has ever doubted that most of
these readers are women. She reciprocates their feelings; women have 'eaten ...
He walked with a limp talking to trees in blossom eyeing Spuggies like they were
hovering Sparrowhawks. One night on Parkway I saw him looking to the heavens
demanding an e-mail from the moon shaking his fist like Charlton Heston more ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
285). Bunting counterbalances this by centering his poem forcefully inadis- tinct
setting. From its start it deploys regional terms and local phrases that Bunting
glosses in the notes that ac- company the poem: “spuggies” (little sparrows), “
oxter” ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPUGGIES»
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spuggies is used in the context of the following news items.
Happy New Year: we ask North East celebrities what are their hopes …
“I'm hoping to slope off into the countryside with my camera to indulge my other, slightly less rock and roll, passion: taking pictures of spuggies and other ... «ChronicleLive, Dec 14»
In praise of … dandelions
Sparrows - called spuggies by my parents - were so common where we lived in the 60s, I barely looked at them. Now, there is only one group that visits my ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
47 more words and phrases that say you're from Birmingham or the …
The word spugs or spuggies is used for sparrows. 41. Pithering means faffing, fussing or dithering. 42. To firk/firtle about is to search for something. 43. Saying ... «Birmingham Mail, Jan 14»
