Definition of Spriggy

1. a. Full of sprigs or small branches.

Definition of Spriggy

1. Adjective. Full of sprigs, or small branches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spriggy

1. having small branches [adj -GIER, -GIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spriggy

sprew
sprews
sprezzatura
sprezzaturas
sprier
spriest
sprig
sprig tail
sprigged
sprigger
spriggers
spriggier
spriggiest
sprigging
spriggite
spriggy (current term)
spright
sprighted
sprightful
sprightfully
sprightfulness
sprightless
sprightlier
sprightliest
sprightliness
sprightlinesses
sprightly
sprights
sprigs
sprigtail

Literary usage of Spriggy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of an East Anglian Soke: Studies in Original Documents by Christobel Mary Hoare Hood (1918)
"Subsidy in Mundesley in 1 and 6 Edward III. 82. Norris. 84. It was probably this William spriggy wh0, in 1294, was a party with William, Laurence, Thomas, ..."

2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1843)
"Safe," replied the man, pointing to the large saucepan which was slung over one of the fires. " What have you brought ?" "Cut up?" inquired spriggy. ..."

3. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin (1808)
"spriggy, son of William, held it. ... for life; remainder to Laurence spriggy, and Margaret his wife, in tail. *T're. ..."

4. A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk by Walter Rye (1886)
"*John spriggy, of the manor of ... (Thos. fil' William spriggy and Thos. fil' Wm. fil' Wm. ..."

5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"The oats ' looked spiry and weak.'—p. 113. Cfr. Spear, and Spire in Hal. spriggy. ' When the ends of the wool on the backs of the sheep twist and stand ..."

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