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sprattling

sprattling is the present participle and gerund of sprattle.

Meaning of sprattle

Verb

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

  1. (Scotland, intransitive) To scramble.

Questions about sprattling

What is sprattling the present participle and gerund of?
Sprattling is the present participle and gerund of sprattle.

Words near sprattling in the dictionary

  1. spratters
  2. spratting
  3. sprattle
  4. sprattled
  5. sprattles
  6. sprattling
  7. Spratton
  8. Spratts
  9. sprauchle
  10. sprauchled
  11. sprauchles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sprattling (page history and authors); sprattle (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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