Brewer's: Isaac

A hedge-sparrow, a corruption of Chaucer's word, heisuagge. (Anglo-Saxon, heag, hedge; sugga, the sugga bird.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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