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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sprig /sprɪg/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Botanya small shoot, twig, or branch.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sprig (sprig),USA pronunciation n., v., sprigged, sprig•ging.
n. - Botanya small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- an ornament having the form of such a spray.
- a shoot, twig, or small branch.
- Slang Terms[Facetious.]a scion, offspring, or heir of a family, class, etc.
- a youth or young fellow.
- BuildingSee glazier's point.
- Buildinga headless brad.
- Metallurgy
- a small peg for reinforcing the walls of a mold.
- a metal insert, used to chill certain portions of cast metal, that becomes an integral part of the finished casting.
v.t. - to mark or decorate (fabrics, pottery, etc.) with a design of sprigs.
- Buildingto fasten with brads.
- Botany[Hort.]to propagate a plant, esp. grass, by planting individual stolons.
- Metallurgyto reinforce the walls of (a mold) with sprigs.
- to remove a sprig or sprigs from (a plant).
- 1300–50; Middle English sprigge (noun, nominal); origin, originally uncertain; sense "peg'' perh. of distinct origin, originally; compare sprag1, spray2
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sprig /sprɪɡ/ n - a shoot, twig, or sprout of a tree, shrub, etc; spray
- an ornamental device resembling a spray of leaves or flowers
- a small wire nail without a head
- informal rare a youth
- informal rare a person considered as the descendant of an established family, social class, etc
- NZ
another name for stud1
vb (sprigs, sprigging, sprigged)(transitive)- to fasten or secure with sprigs
- to ornament (fabric, wallpaper, etc) with a design of sprigs
Etymology: 15th Century: probably of Germanic origin; compare Low German sprick, Swedish spryggˈsprigger n ˈspriggy adj |