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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English sprak, from Old Norse sparkr, sprekr (“lively”) and/or Old Norse sprækr (“lively”), from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz, *sprēkijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(a)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). More at spark.
Adjective
sprack (comparative more sprack, superlative most sprack)
- (UK, dialectal) lively, full of energy
1864, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Studies for Stories: Emily's Ambition:She was apprenticed as a 'pupil teacher,' at fourteen years of age, and deemed to have a more than ordinary chance of doing well and getting on, for she was clever, and what is called 'sprack' in the part of the country where she lived.
1916, J. H. Morgan, Leaves from a Field Note-Book:"Yes, that I be, and I 'ave a little boy, he be a sprack little chap."
Swedish
Verb
sprack
- past indicative of spricka