英语词汇“spruce”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

spruce

释义

any of numerous species of evergreen coniferous trees with a conical head of dense foliage and soft light wood: genus Picea

[Middle English Spruce Prussia, Prussian, alteration of Pruce, from Old French]

neat or smart in dress or appearance; trim

his spruce black coat and his bowler hat — Somerset Maugham

sprucely adv

spruceness noun

perhaps from obsolete Spruce leather leather imported from Prussia: see spruce¹. Spruce leather was a fashionable leather imported in the 16th cent

(+ up) to make (oneself or another person) spruce

verb intrans

(+ up) to make oneself spruce

Better spruce up for dinner

Brit, dated, informal to pretend or feign, esp to malinger or feign illness

verb trans

to deceive (somebody)

sprucer noun

[origin unknown]

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