sprack

See also: spräck

English

Etymology

From Old Norse sprækr (“lively”), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). More at spark.

Adjective

sprack (comparative more sprack, superlative most sprack)

  1. (UK, dialectal) lively, full of energy
    • 1864, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Studies for Stories: Emily's Ambition:
      She was apprenticed as a 'pupil teacher,' at fourteen years of age, and deemed to have a more than ordinary chance of doing well and getting on, for she was clever, and what is called 'sprack' in the part of the country where she lived.
    • 1916, J. H. Morgan, Leaves from a Field Note-Book‎:
      "Yes, that I be, and I 'ave a little boy, he be a sprack little chap."

Swedish

Verb

sprack

  1. past tense of spricka.
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