Obs. [Shortening of HAYSUGGE.] The hedge-sparrow.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 483/2. Sugge, bryd, curuca, linosa [read linofa].
a. 1500. Medulla Gram., Curuca, a sugge, a dumok [read dunok].
1530. Palsgr., 278/1. Sugge a byrde.
[1847. Halliwell, Segge,
the hedge-sparrow. Devon.]