Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sparrow, Passer domesticus.
- noun An old preterit of
spring . - noun A prong of a fork, etc.
- noun The stump of a tree or a tooth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imperative Sprung.
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- verb archaic Simple past of
spring .
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Examples
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I started taking just 1 tsp of flax seed oil per day, and my energy immediately went **sprong!
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Somewhere in the night, nature would overcome adhesive and my ears would sprong outward like speed brakes on a fighter jet.
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Somewhere in the night, nature would overcome adhesive and my ears would sprong outward like speed brakes on a fighter jet.
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Somewhere in the night, nature would overcome adhesive and my ears would sprong outward like speed brakes on a fighter jet.
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Somewhere in the night, nature would overcome adhesive and my ears would sprong outward like speed brakes on a fighter jet.
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I did not see whatever magnetic force Fell reached across the cell with, but the disc player went sprong, and the little door snapped open.
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Thei thought it fondenes in the Grekes, worthie to be laughed at, to imagine goddes to be sprong vp of menne.
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In the latter end of the same kings raigne sprong vp a new company of courtly makers, of whom Sir _Thomas Wyat_ th'elder & _Henry_
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And in her Maiesties time that now is are sprong vp an other crew of Courtly makers Noble men and
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The twoo famous Uni - uersitées of this lande, from the whiche, no small nomber of greate learned men and famous, haue in the co [m] mon wealthe sprong, with all other thynges to it.
vendingmachine commented on the word sprong
Spring has sprong. Or is it sprung? Both sound unspringlike.
April 17, 2017