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spraickle

spraickle 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 spraickle

third-person singular presentspraickles
present participlespraickling
past participlespraickled
pastspraickled

Questions about spraickle

What is spraickle the alternative form of?
Spraickle is the alternative form of sprauchle.

Words near spraickle in the dictionary

  1. Sprague
  2. Sprague Dawley
  3. Sprague Dawleys
  4. Sprague's pipit
  5. Sprague-Grundy theorem
  6. spraickle
  7. spraickled
  8. spraickles
  9. spraickling
  10. spraid
  11. sprain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spraickle (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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