Sprig

Definition: Sprig

Sprig

Noun

1. Small branch or division of a branch; usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year.

2. An ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sprig" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Sprig

Arms

Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.

Part

Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum.

Crosswords: Sprig

Books

• A Sprig of Basil: Twenty-Five Classic Recipes (reference)

• A sprig of holly (reference)

• A Sprig of Hope: Sermons of Encouragement and Expectation (reference)

• A Sprig of Mint: Twenty-Five Classic Recipes (reference)

• A sprig of sea lavender : a novel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Fennelly: A Sprig Of Andromeda/Tesserae II/Evanescences For Instruments And Electronic Tape/Wind Quintet/Empirical Ra (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sprig": sprig of mistletoe. Additional references.

Beginning with "sprig": sprig-marked.

Ending with "sprig": lively-sprig.

Albanian

zbukurim në formë degëze, thumb pa kokë (Brad), lastar (offshot, outgrowth, scion, slip, spray, sprout, tender-shoot), degëz (ramule), çunak (kid, nipper, shaver). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتى (adolescent, boy, bugger, lad, scout, young man, youngish, youngster, youth), ‏حلية شبيهة بعسلوج, ‏غصن (bough, branch, crease, crumple, shoot), ‏سليل, ‏عسلوج (palm branch), ‏شاب (admix, boy, chap, contaminate, lad, stud, tinge, young, young man, youngster, youth, youthful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

украсявам с клончета, украшение във форма на клонче (spray), рисувам клончета, щифт (axle pin, dowel, locking-finger, nog, peg, pin, pintle, plug, splint, toggle), клонче (stick), гранка (hasp, offset, offshoot), гвоздейче без главичка, вейка (offset, rod, shoot, switch, twig, windle-straw), младок (colt, fledgeling, fledgling, sapling, seedling, shaveling, shaver, snip, snippet, sprout, youngster), бродирам клончета, издънка (offset, offshoot, outgrowth, scion, shoot, slip, sprout, sucker, switch, tiller). (various references)

Chinese 

小树枝. (various references)

Czech

snítka, výhonek (bine, burgeon, offset, offshoot, shoot, sprout, sucker), ratolest (scion, spray). (various references)

Dutch

spijker (nail). (various references)

Farsi 

میخ کوچک بی سر, نوباوه (Young, Youngster), گلدوزی کردن (Embroider), ترکه (Bequest, Bough, Heirloom, Offshoot, Rod, Scion, Spray, Switch, Twig, Wand, Wattle), جوانک (Callan, Chap, Lad, Youngling, Youngster), شاخه کوچک (Spray), بوته (Brushwood, Bush, Herb, Shrub, Underbrush), بشکل شاخ وبرگ دراوردن . (various references)

Finnish

oksa (bough, branch, knot, snag, spray, twig). (various references)

French

brin. (various references)

German

kleiner Zweig. (various references)

Greek 

καρφώνω (fasten with nails, nail, peg, peg out, pin, rivet, skewer, tack), καρφί ακέφαλο, κοσμώ με καρφιά, βλαστόσ (burgeon, offset, offshoot, scion, shoot, slip, sprout, stalk, tilt, twig), βλασταράκι. (various references)

Hebrew 

עלם (lad, stripling, youngster, youth), ענף (bough, branch, branchy, extensive, ramified, sector, sprout, stick, widespread), זלזל (shoot, tendril, twig), זרד (shoot, twig, wicker), נצר (descendant, offshoot, offspring, scion, shoot, sprout). (various references)

Hungarian

sarjadék (offspring, scion, shoot, sprout), sarj (offset, offshoot, scion, sprout, sucker), hajtás (burgeon, drift, drift work, drive, offset, offshoot, ply, propulsion, quartering, scion, shoot, sprout, stem, sucker), gallyacska (wattle), fejetlen szög, ágacska (spray, twig), ág (arm, branch, perch, prong, shroud, snub, tine). (various references)

Italian

ramoscello (spray, twig), rametto (twig). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

若枝 (young branch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わかえだ (young branch). (various references)

Manx

gass (bitch, bitch canine, bunch, stalk, stem). (various references)

Pig Latin

igspray.(various references)

Portuguese

vergôntea (shoot), rebento (browse, bud, chit, gemma, layer, offset, offshoot, plant, scion, shoot, slip, sprout, twig), raminho (branchlet, fescue), galho novo, adorno em forma de ramo. (various references)

Romanian

rãmuricã (twig), rãmurea, lãstar (bine, brushwood, scion, sprout, twig, undergrowth), cui (cotter, nail, peg, pin, rough, Spike, stud, whose). (various references)

Russian 

росток (set, shoot, spire, sprout), веточка (palm, ramule, twig), побег (bine, escapade, escape, getaway, imp, jailbreak, offset, offshoot, scion, shoot, slip, sprout, tiller). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mladika, grančica (larkspur, twig, twiglet). (various references)

Spanish

ramita (spray, twig), puntilla (brad, lace, needle lace, Picot, purl, small point, tiptoe), pimpollo (sapling), espiga (clapper, dowel, ear, fuse, fuze, masthead, peg, shaft, spigot, Spike, tang, tenon). (various references)

Swedish

kvist (bough, branch, knag, spray, twig). (various references)

Thai

กิ่งไม้เล็กๆ, ตะปูขนาดเล็กไม่มีหัว, วัยหนุ่มสาว, ลูกหลาน (descendant, issue), ประดับด้วยกิ่งไม้เล็กๆ. (various references)

Turkish

ince dallarla süslemek, ince dal (rod, switch, twig, vimen), filiz (bud, burgeon, button, cion, growth, offshoot, ore, outgrowth, rod, shoot, spine, spray, sprout, tendril, tiller), fışkın (shoot, sucker), delikanlı (a slip of a boy, adolescent, boy, conceited pup, gossoon, juvenescent, killer, lad, laddie, palikar, pup, puppy, sapling, stripling, teen, teenager, teeny, whelp, young man, youngster, youth), bahar dalı (spray), başsız çivi çakmak, başsız çivi. (various references)

Ukrainian

юнак (adolescent, adult, juvenile, lad, shaveling, stripling, yearling, youngling, youngster, younker, youth), гілочка (branchlet, ramule, twig). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cành con, anh chàng chưa ráo máu đầu. (various references)

Welsh

ysbrigyn (twig), pincyn. (various references)

palmes, palmitem, palmites, palmitum, planta, vitulamina. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sprig": sprigged, sprigger, spriggers, spriggier, spriggiest, sprigging, spriggy, spright, sprightful, sprightfully, sprightfulness, sprightfulnesses, sprightlier, sprightliest, sprightliness, sprightlinesses, sprightly, sprights, sprigs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sprig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Espriu, sorug, spig, spir, spri, sprif, sprige, sprigh, sprimg, sprog, Sprugg, sprygg, sreg, strig. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grips, prigs.

-1 letter: gips, grip, pigs, prig, rigs, rips.

-2 letters: gip, pig, pis, psi, rig, rip, sip, sir, sri.

-3 letters: is, pi, si.

+1 letter: gripes, sprigs, spring.

+2 letters: gippers, gripers, grippes, parings, parsing, pingers, porgies, prising, prosing, pursing, rasping, serpigo, sparing, spiring, sporing, spriggy, spright, springe, springs, springy, upgirds.

+3 letters: aspiring, carpings, crisping, digraphs, epigrams, garpikes, glimpser, gossiper, gossipry, graphics, grapiest, graplins, grasping, gripiest, grippers, gripsack, groupies, grumpish, guipures, guruship, harpings, impregns, ingroups, isograph, pagurids, pairings, pargings, parkings, partings, perigees, perigons, periwigs, perusing, phrasing, pilgrims, pingrass, piraguas, pirogies, pirogues, praising, pressing, prestige, priggish, priggism, primages, primings, prissing, prurigos, puggries, purgings, pursuing, reposing, respring, scarping, scraping, sharping, shopgirl, slurping, spagyric, sparging, sparking, sparling, sparring, spearing, speering, speiring, sphering, spiering, spirting, spongier, spooring, sporting, spraying, sprigged, sprigger, sprights, springal, springed, springer, springes, sprucing, spurning, spurring, spurting, striping, supering, uprights, uprising, upspring, usurping.