sparra

plural sparras

1. CockneyLondonA sparrow.

   Jason dons a screwed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra, unfortunately goes posh.

   2008, Jon Wise, “Double trouble as soap won't wash”, in People

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   "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"

   1859, Samuel Carter Hall, The book of the Thames: from its rise to its fall, page 351