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Definition of Spadgers
1. spadger [n] - See also: spadger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spadgers
Literary usage of Spadgers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"The door was a dollop o' Japanese fans, and the cupboard was painted white, And
hover it some'un had sprinkled a job-lot o' spadgers in flight ! ..."
2. Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies, J. Baden Jefferies (1889)
"... spadgers.' The cat wandering about got caught in the rat-clams—ie a gin.
Another cat was the miller's favourite at the windmill, a well-fed, happy, ..."
3. Behold the Days Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics by James Granville Adderley (1907)
"... East India Dock roads) that our Sister Larks (and Sister spadgers too) may
have something to eat, and also the other birds, on a day of such solemnity. ..."
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