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A hedge-sparrow, a corruption of Chaucer’s word, heisuagge. (Anglo-Saxon, heag, hedge; sugga, the sugga bird.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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