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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
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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