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sparky

sparky adjective: lively and animated.

Adjective

sparky (comparative sparkier, superlative sparkiest)

  1. Lively and animated.
    • Anthony's certainly hasn′t achieved the consistent level of Tony′s, but the menu is sparkier, more up to the minute.1986 July, Texas Monthly, page 103
    • With regular trains running back to Edinburgh as late as 11.30pm, you could consider sampling some of Glasgow′s nightlife, consistently sparkier and more cutting-edge than Edinburgh′s, or taking in some of the city′s innovative and high-quality theatre and live music.2002, Donald Reid, The Rough Guide to Edinburgh, page 134
  2. Resembling or characteristic of an electrical spark.
    • […] a sparky sound too. A little high-pitched crack.2022, Allan Brewer, The Complete i-Vector Series

Noun

sparky (plural sparkies)

  1. (Navy, US) A radio operator.
    • The headlines ground out big and black at home, but by the time they had gone out on the Fleet broadcast circuits, been picked out of the air by Mr. Woodside′s sparkies in the radio shack, whacked onto a stencil and run through a mimeograph machine by Harry Dolliver, they were not nearly so...1964, Arnold S. Lott, Brave Ship, Brave Men, published 1994, page 77
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) An electrician.
    • […]the manager of one of the largest hotels, also a committee member ‘let it be known that sparkies working for the hotel should be involved in the programme. The next day saw three very keen contractors ring us up to enrol.’2001, Jane Kenway, Peter Kelly, Sue Willis, “6: Manufacturing the Global Locality, Customizing the School and Designing Young Workers”, in Jack Demaine, editor, Sociology of Education Today, UK...
    • Pete said that the sparkies, the electricians, had turned the power off.2004, Stephanie Smith, Underground London, UK: Hachette, unnumbered page

Proper noun capitalized: Sparky

Sparky

  1. A nickname for a person who is lively and animated.
    • You should keep working, driving for whatever goal you have your eye on, while at the same time avoiding a tip over into a workaholic relapse. How?
      By becoming a manager, Sparky. The purpose of management is to make other people do the things that need doing, so you can think about strategy and...2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 122
  2. A name for a pet, traditionally especially a dog, with similar connotations.

sparky meaning in Urdu

sparky in Urdu

sparky
اسپیرکی ispīrkī

Forms of sparky

Adjective
comparativesparkier
superlativesparkiest
Noun
pluralsparkies

Origin of sparky

From spark + -y.

From the adjective sparky (“lively, animated”).

Words formed from sparky

Phrases with sparky

Words that rhyme with sparky

Questions about sparky

What does sparky mean?
Sparky means lively and animated.
What is sparky in Urdu?
Sparky in Urdu is اسپیرکی (ispīrkī). See Sparky meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is sparky?
Sparky can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near sparky in the dictionary

  1. sparks off
  2. sparks out
  3. sparks up
  4. sparktastic
  5. Sparkwell
  6. sparky
  7. sparless
  8. sparlike
  9. sparling
  10. sparlings
  11. sparmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sparky (page history and authors); Sparky (page history and authors); اسپیرکی (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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