Sprack
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 lively, full of energy UK, dialectal
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
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.
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