Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈspɹæk/
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[ˈspɹʷæk]
Adjective
lively, full of energy
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
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More examples (1)
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.
"Yes, that I be, and I 'ave a little boy, he be a sprack little chap."