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sprackness

sprackness noun: the quality of being sprack, lively, full of energy.

Noun

sprackness (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The quality of being sprack, lively, full of energy.
    • The Saxon's mind, and above all in the young, is destructive, and his sprackness wants the guidance of refined thought, […]1869, William Barnes, Early England and the Saxon-English, page 64
    • She smoked in silence for a minute or two while Lady Shore sat and blinked at her, struck as always by her friend's personality, by her wonderful, shining sprackness. Her dark hair shone, especially on the temples, […]1925, Radclyffe Hall, A Saturday Life

Origin of sprackness

From sprack + -ness.

Questions about sprackness

What does sprackness mean?
Sprackness means the quality of being sprack, lively, full of energy.
What part of speech is sprackness?
Sprackness is a noun.

Words near sprackness in the dictionary

  1. sprackle
  2. sprackled
  3. Spracklen
  4. sprackles
  5. sprackling
  6. sprackness
  7. sprad
  8. spraddle
  9. spraddle-legged
  10. spraddled
  11. spraddlelegged

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