sprit
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /spɹɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English sprete, from Old English sprēot (“pole, pike, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *spreut, related to Proto-West Germanic *sprutō (“shoot, sprout”). Cognate with West Frisian spriet (“sprit, spoke”), Dutch spriet (“a sprit, blade, spar, shoot, sprig”), Middle High German spriez (“sprout, twig”).
Noun
editsprit (plural sprits)
- (nautical) A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Heart of Darkness:
- ... and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.
- A shoot; a sprout.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- the Maltſter will ſtir his Barley Couches till the Sprit begins to fork , five or ſix times a day or more ; it being always his Care to keep them from drying too much on the outſides
Hyponyms
edit- (supporting spar in spritsail rig): bowsprit
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Etymology 2
editVariant of spurt, spirt (“to sprout, burst”).
Verb
editsprit (third-person singular simple present sprits, present participle spritting, simple past and past participle spritted)
- To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
- To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
Anagrams
editDanish
editEtymology
editVia French esprit from Latin spīritus (“breath, spirit”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsprit c (singular definite spritten, not used in plural form)
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom Latin spiritus, via French esprit.
Noun
editsprit m (definite singular spriten)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “sprit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Latin spiritus, via French esprit.
Noun
editsprit m (definite singular spriten)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “sprit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom French ésprit (compare English sprite), from Old French esprit, from Latin spiritus (“air, breath”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsprit c (uncountable)
- spirits, liquor, booze
- 1985, Eddie Meduza (lyrics and music), “Alla tiders fyllekalas”[1]:
- Gyllensten fyller femtio år. Har alltid på spriten varit svår. Så när vi nu på hans bjudning går, så vet vi ju alla vad vi får.
- Gyllensten is turning fifty years old [today]. Has always been keen on the booze. So now when we go to his party [finer private party with invited guests], we all know what we're getting.
- 1991, De Lyckliga Kompisarna (lyrics and music), “Dricka sprit och hålla käften”, in Le som en fotomodell[2]:
- Dricka sprit, och hålla käften. Dricka sprit, och hålla käften. Dricka billig sprit, och hålla käften. Jag vill dit.
- Drinking booze, and shutting up. Drinking booze, and shutting up. Drinking cheap booze, and shutting up. I want to get there [I want thither / to there].
- 1995, Räserbajs (lyrics and music), “Spriten räddade mig från sporten”, in Noppriga tights och moonboots[3]:
- Spriten räddade [often clipped to "rädda" in speech] mig från sporten (tra-la ho ho). Spriten räddar folk från sporten, idag.
- Booze saved me from sports ["the sport" – definite is often idiomatic when referring to concepts] (tra-la ho ho). Booze saves people from sports, today.
- alcohol in general, chiefly as a solvent
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | sprit | sprits |
definite | spriten | spritens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Derived terms
edit- (liquor): starksprit
- (solvent): handsprit, läkarsprit, spritpenna
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