Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prong of a fork, etc.
- noun The stump of a tree or a tooth.
- noun An old preterit of
spring . - noun The sparrow, Passer domesticus.
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!
More on the Ornish plan | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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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.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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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.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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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.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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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.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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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.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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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_
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And in her Maiesties time that now is are sprong vp an other crew of Courtly makers Noble men and
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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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.
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The Sprong shift is a certain way of reversing the cards so that a card that would be in the middle will end up on top.
Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets Condé Nast 1993
vendingmachine commented on the word sprong
Spring has sprong. Or is it sprung? Both sound unspringlike.
April 17, 2017