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Compare dialectal English sprug up (“dress neatly”), sprag (“prop”, verb)/sprag (“lively”, adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Compare dialectal English sprug up (“dress neatly”), sprag (“prop”, verb)/sprag (“lively”, adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.