spack
/spak/adjective
Of a person: quick, prompt, ready; intelligent, clever. In later use archaic and English regional.
Origin
Middle English; earliest use found in Trinity Cambridge Manuscript. From early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic spakr wise, quiet, gentle, Old Swedish spaker wise, quiet, gentle, peaceful (Swedish spak), Old Danish spak, spag quiet, gentle (Danish spag)), perhaps from the same Indo-European base as Croatian paziti to give heed to.
- ring light
- ringling
- ringlock
- ring main
- ring man
- ringmaster
- ringmastering
- ringmastership
- ring modulation
- ring modulator
- ring mold
- ring-money
- ring mould
- ring mountain
- ring nebula
- ringneck
- ring-neck dove
- ring-neck duck
- ring-necked
- ring-necked dove
- ring-necked duck
- ring-necked parakeet
- ring-necked parrot
- ring-necked pheasant
- ring-necked plover