sprummer
sprummer noun: the transition period between spring and summer: late spring.
Noun
sprummer (uncountable)
- The transition period between spring and summer: late spring.
- SPRUMMER is the Tavistock Repertory Company's season between April and July at the TOWER THEATRE1963, Encore - Issues 41-52, page 47
- Spring and summer chinook ("sprummer" chinook to the National Marine Fisheries Service) hang on at critically low levels that represent irretrievable loss of invaluable genetic diversity.1991, Northwest Energy News
Examples of sprummer in a sentence
- Revising and reassigning the antipodean seasons, he divides spring into a two-month “sprinter” (August–September) and two-month “sprummer” (October–November).2013, John Charles Ryan, Toward a phen (omen) ology of the seasons: The emergence of the Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project (IWKP):
- So, while the changes are different from those on the coast, sprinter with its early bulbs and sprummer with the local waratah are useful times to reflect on seasonal changes in the Blue Mountains.2014, Timothy Entwisle, Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia's Changing Seasons, page 83:
Origin of sprummer
Blend of spring + summer.
Questions about sprummer
- What does sprummer mean?
- Sprummer means the transition period between spring and summer: late spring.
- How do you use sprummer in a sentence?
- Revising and reassigning the antipodean seasons, he divides spring into a two-month “sprinter” (August–September) and two-month “sprummer” (October–November).
- What part of speech is sprummer?
- Sprummer is a noun.
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