Definition of Sprucer

1. Adjective. (comparative of spruce) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sprucer

1. spruce [adj] - See also: spruce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprucer

sprouts
sprouty
spruce
spruce bark beetle
spruce beer
spruce gall aphid
spruce grouse
spruce pine
spruce squirrel
spruce up
spruced
spruced up
sprucely
spruceness
sprucenesses
sprucer (current term)
spruces
spruces up
sprucest
sprucier
spruciest
sprucing
sprucing up
sprucy
sprue
sprue-former
sprue / coeliac disease
sprues
sprug
sprugged

Literary usage of Sprucer

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

1. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth (1820)
"and comfort, of which sprucer and more modern buildings are often destitute. A white wicker gate opened into a small green court, the grass neatly mown, ..."

2. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"... and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better- trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house. ..."

3. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"... and hardly a straight line ; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer public-house. ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"... Mr '13 sprucer. Munsey. 49: 273-7. My. '13. Toss-up. Harp. W. 57: 10+ Jl. '4. '13. England, Minnie Throop. Analysis of the crisis cycle. ..."

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