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spraff

spraff verb: to speak excessively or pointlessly.

Verb

spraff (third-person singular simple present spraffs, present participle spraffing, simple past and past participle spraffed)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) To speak excessively or pointlessly.
  2. (Scotland, colloquial) To speak (in general).

Noun

spraff (plural spraffs)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) Spiel.
  2. (Scotland, colloquial) Chat, patter.
  3. (Scotland, colloquial) Speech.

Forms of spraff

Verb
third-person singular presentspraffs
present participlespraffing
past participlespraffed
pastspraffed
Noun
pluralspraffs

Questions about spraff

What does spraff mean?
Spraff means to speak excessively or pointlessly.
What part of speech is spraff?
Spraff can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of spraff?
The past tense of spraff is spraffed.

Words near spraff in the dictionary

  1. Spradleys
  2. Spradlin
  3. Spradling
  4. Spradlings
  5. Spradlins
  6. spraff
  7. spraffed
  8. spraffing
  9. spraffs
  10. sprag
  11. Spragg

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