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单词 spryly
释义
spryspry /spraɪ/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINspry
Origin:
1700-1800 Perhaps from a Scandinavian language
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a spry silver-haired grandmother
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A grey squirrel, spry after its winter sleep, startled Ben by scampering across his path.
  • Anne Enright is a very original writer-a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences.
  • Mum is still spry and energetic - and she's 91.
  • Out of doors Shaw continued to look spry and active well into his eighties.
  • Some of your team should be spry, others should be massive.
  • Though apparently quite spry, the old men's memories are not what they once were.
a spry old person has energy and is active SYN  sprightly:  He’s still remarkably spry.spryly adverb
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