cock-sparrow
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cock-sparrow (plural cock-sparrows)
- A male sparrow.
- A quarrelsome, cocky person
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries.