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spry
English
Etymology
From British dialectal sprey, from Old Norse sprækr (“nimble, lively”) from Proto-Germanic *spr?kiz (“lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pereg- (“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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Adjective
spry (comparative sprier, superlative spriest)
- Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
- Vigorous; lively; cheerful.
- 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)
- The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
- The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
- 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope (page 68)
Translations
Anagrams
- Prys, syrp
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supple
English
Etymology
From Middle English souple, from Old French souple, soupple (“soft, lithe, yielding”), from Latin supplic-, supplex (“suppliant, submissive, kneeling”), of uncertain formation. Either from sub + plic? (“bend”) (compare complex), or from sub + pl?c? (“placate”). More at sub-, placate.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?s?p?l/
- Rhymes: -?p?l
Adjective
supple (comparative suppler, superlative supplest)
- pliant, flexible, easy to bend
- lithe and agile when moving and bending
- supple joints; supple fingers
- compliant; yielding to the will of others
- a supple horse
- If punishment […] makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Translations
Verb
supple (third-person singular simple present supples, present participle suppling, simple past and past participle suppled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become supple.
- 1693, John Dryden, Examen Poeticum
- The stones […] suppl'd into softness as they fell.
- 1693, John Dryden, Examen Poeticum
- (transitive) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
- a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of contentment, patience and resignation to the will of God
- They should supple our stiff wilfulness.
Translations
Anagrams
- peplus
Latin
Verb
suppl?
- second-person singular present active imperative of supple?
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