sprug

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

sprug (plural sprugs)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) house sparrow

Etymology 2

Compare dialectal English sprug up (dress neatly), sprag (prop, verb)/sprag (lively, adjective).

Verb

sprug (third-person singular simple present sprugs, present participle sprugging, simple past and past participle sprugged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To make smart.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sprug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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