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sprackle

sprackle is the alternative form of sprauchle.

Meaning of sprauchle

Verb

sprauchle (third-person singular simple present sprauchles, present participle sprauchling, simple past and past participle sprauchled)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To move in a clumsy manner; to stumble or sprawl; to clamber up with difficulty.
    • We'll sprauchle yont life's roughsome way, / As canny as we dow; / An' souther oor affections aye, / In love's heart-warmin' lowe.1881, David Thomson, Musings Among the Heather: Being Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

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Forms of sprackle

third-person singular presentsprackles
present participlesprackling
past participlesprackled
pastsprackled

Questions about sprackle

What is sprackle the alternative form of?
Sprackle is the alternative form of sprauchle.

Words near sprackle in the dictionary

  1. sprachbünde
  2. sprachgefuhl
  3. sprachgefühl
  4. Sprachraum
  5. sprack
  6. sprackle
  7. sprackled
  8. Spracklen
  9. sprackles
  10. sprackling
  11. sprackness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprackle (page history and authors); sprauchle (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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