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sparrow's fart

sparrow's fart is the alternative form of sparrow-fart.

Meaning of sparrow-fart

Noun

sparrow-fart (countable and uncountable, plural sparrow-farts)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang, uncountable) A time very early in the day; dawn.
    • “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”1993, Patti Walkuski, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 111
    Synonyms:
    cockcrow
  2. (countable) A person or thing of no consequence.
    • […] Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talking about politics they know as much about as my backside […]1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Questions about sparrow's fart

What is sparrow's fart the alternative form of?
Sparrow's fart is the alternative form of sparrow-fart.

Words near sparrow's fart in the dictionary

  1. sparrow fart
  2. sparrow grass
  3. sparrow hawk
  4. sparrow hawks
  5. sparrow vetch
  6. sparrow's fart
  7. Sparrow's resolution limit
  8. sparrow-fart
  9. sparrow-grass
  10. sparrow-hawk
  11. sparrow-hawks

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