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sparrowfart

sparrowfart 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

Forms of sparrowfart

pluralsparrowfarts

Questions about sparrowfart

What is sparrowfart the alternative form of?
Sparrowfart is the alternative form of sparrow-fart.

Words near sparrowfart in the dictionary

  1. sparrowbill
  2. sparrowbills
  3. sparrowcide
  4. sparrowcides
  5. sparrowdom
  6. sparrowfart
  7. sparrowfarts
  8. sparrowgrass
  9. sparrowhawk
  10. sparrowhawks
  11. sparrowish

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