sprug
English
Etymology 1
Noun
sprug (plural sprugs)
Etymology 2
Compare dialectal English sprug up (“dress neatly”), sprag (“prop”, verb)/sprag (“lively”, adjective).
Verb
sprug (third-person singular simple present sprugs, present participle sprugging, simple past and past participle sprugged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make smart.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sprug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)