1592 G. Harvey 58 Ignis fatuus [was] never so spritishly busy.
1906 W. B. Maxwell (1913) v. 52 The horse..swung round and round spritishly.
1963 B. Pearson vii. 144 The resistance both..offered to anything ‘soft’ like ‘romance’ into which Cupid, in the form of the two schoolgirls, was teasingly and spritishly pushing them.