sprankle

sprankle (plural sprankles)

1. (rare) A contrasting part that makes something more interesting and attractive.
   • 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 15 April 1664, page 5.124:

     ... saw The German Princess acted-by the woman herself ... the whole play ... is very simple, unless here and there a witty sprankle or two

   • 1872, Daniel Sharp Ford, The Youth's Companion - Volume 45, page 355:

     No. 3 is a group of drooping fuchslas, scarlet, pink and purple, with a sprankle of witch grass.

   • 1921, “Exchange Secretaries Meet in Buffalo”, in The American Contractor, volume 42, page 34:

     Youngstown always has given a good account of herself, but they are going stronger than ever it seems. A few more SPRANKLES and over the top we will go.

sprankle (third-person singular simple present sprankles, present participle sprankling, simple past and past participle sprankled)

1. (chiefly US) Pronunciation spelling of sprinkle.
   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:

     With that hehry antlets on him and the bauble-light bulching out of his sockets whiling away she sprankled his allover with her noces of interregnation: How do you do that lack a lock and pass the poker, please?

   • 1980, Studs Terkel, American Dreams: Lost and Found, →ISBN, page 197:

     I snapped the curtains down in the floor, all of 'em was burnin', and I run in the back room and drug all the bed clothes off the bed and sprankled water on.

   • 2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, →ISBN:

     We sprankled water on the clothes to damp'm 'em down to make 'em easier to am an'en rolled 'em up and poked 'em down in a piller slip to keep ,em damp.

   • 2012, Paul Ruffin, Jesus in the Mist: Stories, →ISBN:

     The childern take'n her ashes out to everplace they ever lived at and sprankled part of her under azalea bushes and mimoser trees, in ditches and ponds, just all over everwhere that she lived at and loved.

• plankers, replanks