Cock-sparrow

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A male sparrow.
  2. 2
    A quarrelsome, cocky person

    "Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries."

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"Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries."

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