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sprog

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5 lettersPronunciation /spɹɒɡ/Part of speech nounSorted goprsStarts with SEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A child or young recruit, especially in British slang.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Any guardianship or trusts that you set up when your children were little sprogs may no longer be needed.
  • Kids will love the climbing wall and NZ′s highest vertical slide. If the sprogs get bored with reality, movie make-believe (p232) is right next door.

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