Sprog

//spɹɒɡ// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A child. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, humorous, informal, uncountable

    "To test this hypothesis further, he and his mate Fifer persuaded 16 women, heavy with child, to read a story called The Cat in the Hat to their unborn sprogs, twice a day, during the last few weeks of their pregnancies."

  2. 2
    a child wordnet
  3. 3
    A new recruit. UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
  4. 4
    a new military recruit wordnet
  5. 5
    Semen. Australia, dated, slang, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders. countable, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To produce children. Australia, UK, humorous, slang

    "You must have been terrified, it′s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere."

  2. 2
    To ejaculate, to come. Australia, slang

    "2004, Kathryn Fox, Malicious Intent, Pan MacMillan Australia, unnumbered page, The kid was fathered by the same guy who sprogged into Debbie Finch′s throat."

Synonyms

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ankle biterankle-biterbairnblow a nutblow one's loadblow one's wad

Example

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"To test this hypothesis further, he and his mate Fifer persuaded 16 women, heavy with child, to read a story called The Cat in the Hat to their unborn sprogs, twice a day, during the last few weeks of their pregnancies."

Etymology

1940s, originally service slang. Perhaps from obsolete sprag (“lively young man”), of unknown origin.

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