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Word entry · 4 letters

spry

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"Moving quickly and lightly"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /spɹaɪ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted prsyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. moving quickly and lightly

Word origin

From British dialectal sprey, from Old Norse sprækr (“nimble, lively”) from Proto-Germanic *sprēkiz (“lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preg- (“to strew, jerk, sprinkle, scatter”). Cognate with Icelandic sprækur (“lively, spry”), Norwegian sprek (“lively, healthy”), dialectal Swedish sprygg (“brisk, very active, skittish”). More at spark. Related to sprack, sprig, sprug, freckle.

Used in a sentence

  • "I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather—that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times."

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