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- noun Plural form of
sprat .
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Examples
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The blacks bestow on this godsend, popularly known as "sprats" -- HARENGULA STEREOLEPIS (Ogilby) -- the name of "Oon-gnahr."
Tropic Days 1887
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I adore that their young are called sprats and I shall be endeavouring to use fissiparously in a sentence this weekend.
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Small fish, such as sprats, were simply salted in saturated brine and dried to 15% moisture.
Chapter 5 1982
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Uncomforted by nicotine the man's spirits plummeted like a gannet after sprats.
Down go the fairy lights and down go Middlesbrough's promotion hopes | Harry Pearson 2012
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In March 1998, the town of Bracknell experienced a shower of dead frogs, while in August 2000 Great Yarmouth received a similar shower, this time of dead sprats.
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Pour in the cream and about half of the marinade from the sprats.
Kalle Bergman: Janssons Temptation: Star Of The Swedish Christmas Smorgasbord Kalle Bergman 2010
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This lovely fella is essentially a potato gratin, topped with crispy breadcrumbs, soft on the inside and spiced up with small pickled sprats to add an amazing and almost undefinable sweet saltiness to the dish.
Kalle Bergman: Janssons Temptation: Star Of The Swedish Christmas Smorgasbord Kalle Bergman 2010
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The Swedish word ansjovis is often translated and understandably so into the English anchovies, but the fact of the matter is that ansjovis in Swedish actually means pickled sprats.
Kalle Bergman: Janssons Temptation: Star Of The Swedish Christmas Smorgasbord Kalle Bergman 2010
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Small can of sprats (I used smoked sprats from Lithuania that were on sale)
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Small can of sprats (I used smoked sprats from Lithuania that were on sale)
CSA Week 3 Notes 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word sprats
From the examples:
“In March 1998, the town of Bracknell experienced a shower of dead frogs, while in August 2000 Great Yarmouth received a similar shower, this time of dead sprats.”
--The Guardian: Weatherwatch: a shower of frogs
January 26, 2012