Alternative forms

• sprag, sprak

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SPRACKCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SPRACK sprak, from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#SPRACK sparkr, sprekr (“lively”) and/or Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#SPRACK sprækr (“lively”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPRACK *sparkaz, *sprēkijaz, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SPRACK *sp(h)er(a)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). More at spark.

Adjective

sprack (comparative more sprack, superlative most sprack)Category:English lemmas#SPRACKCategory:English adjectives#SPRACKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SPRACKCategory:Pages with entries#SPRACKCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SPRACK

1. (UKCategory:British English#SPRACK, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#SPRACK) 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.

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   • 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."

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Verb

sprackCategory:Swedish non-lemma forms#SPRACKCategory:Swedish verb forms#SPRACKCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SPRACKCategory:Pages with entries#SPRACKCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SPRACK

1. past indicative of spricka