Sparra

Origin

Eye dialect of sparrow

Full definition of sparra

Noun

1. (London, chiefly Cockney) A sparrow.
• 2008, Jon Wise, Double trouble as soap won't wash, PeopleJason dons as crewed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra, unfortunately goes posh.
• 1859, Samuel Carter Hall, The book of the Thames: from its rise to its fall, p. 351"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"----