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sucga

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sucga, an; m.
The name of a bird. [In later times the word seems to apply to the whitethroat, which is called hazeck (Worcest.) and hay sucker (Devon), and to the hedge-sparrow, isaac or hazock (Worcest.), segge (Devon),
    E. D. S. Pub., Bird Names, pp. 23, 29.
Chaucer uses heysugge (-sogge, -soke) of the sparrow: Thou (the cuckoo) mordrer of the heysugge, Parl. of
    F. 612.
Heges-sugge (q. v.) is used to gloss the same word, vicetula as sucga does.]
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  • Sucga, sugga, suca

    ficetula,

      Txts. 62, 422.
  • Sucga,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 35, 53.
  • Sugga, i. 62, 43.
  • Tó sucgan gráf,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 437, 27.
Etymology
[Sugge, bryd curuca, linosa, Prompt. Parv. 483, col. 2. Halliwell quotes sugge from Palsgrave.]
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v.  sugga.
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  • sucga, n.