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sprucer

sprucer is the comparative form of spruce.

Meaning of spruce

Adjective

spruce (comparative sprucer, superlative sprucest)

  1. (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
    • Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]1606, William Warner, “The Sixteenth Booke. Chapter CI.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 399
    Synonyms:
    pulchritudinous

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Questions about sprucer

What is sprucer the comparative form of?
Sprucer is the comparative form of spruce.

Words near sprucer in the dictionary

  1. spruceness
  2. sprucening
  3. sprucening up
  4. sprucens
  5. sprucens up
  6. sprucer
  7. sprucery
  8. spruces
  9. spruces up
  10. sprucest
  11. sprucey

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