Contextualizebeta

sparrow-fart

noun

Etymology

From sparrow + fart. In the dawn sense, apparently from a UK dialect (Yorkshire) from before 1828.

  1. inherited from fert
  2. derived from *perd-✻
  3. inherited from *fertaną✻
  4. inherited from *fertan✻
  5. inherited from *feortan✻
  6. inherited from ferten
  7. compounded as sparrow-fart — “sparrow + fart”

Definitions

  1. A time very early in the day

    A time very early in the day; dawn.

    • “I was sick of working from sparrow fart as station cook and general dogs-body.”

  2. A person or thing of no consequence.

    • […] Miss This Miss That Miss Theother lot of sparrowfarts skitting around talking about politics they know as much about as my backside […]
    • ‘The hell with the talented sparrowfarts who write delicately of one small piece of one mere lifetime, when the issues are galaxies, eons, and trillions of souls yet to be born.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sparrow-fart. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA