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sprattle

sprattle verb: to scramble.

Verb

sprattle (third-person singular simple present sprattles, present participle sprattling, simple past and past participle sprattled)

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To scramble.

Forms of sprattle

third-person singular presentsprattles
present participlesprattling
past participlesprattled
pastsprattled

Questions about sprattle

What does sprattle mean?
Sprattle means to scramble.
What part of speech is sprattle?
Sprattle is a verb.
What is the past tense of sprattle?
The past tense of sprattle is sprattled.

Words near sprattle in the dictionary

  1. Spratt
  2. spratted
  3. spratter
  4. spratters
  5. spratting
  6. sprattle
  7. sprattled
  8. sprattles
  9. sprattling
  10. Spratton
  11. Spratts

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