Jack Sprat
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The name of a character in an old poem, who would eat no fat.
Noun
[edit]Jack Sprat (plural Jack Sprats)
- (informal) A small or skinny boy or man.
- John Redford, The Play of Wit & Science
- Heard you ever such a counsel of such a Jack sprat?
- 2009, Rupert Isaacson, The Horse Boy: A Father's Miraculous Journey to Heal His Son:
- The other van pulled up behind us, its super-skinny driver, a Jack Sprat to the large guy driving our van, grinning widely as he cut the engine.
- John Redford, The Play of Wit & Science
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary