sprog

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/spɹɒɡ/
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/spɹɒɡ/ · /sprɔɡ/ (US) · /sprɑɡ/

Definition of sprog

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, humorous, informal, uncountable)A child.
    “To test this hypothesis further, he and his mate Fifer persuaded 16 women, heavy with child, to read a story called The Cat in the Hat to their unborn sprogs, twice a day, during the last few weeks of their pregnancies.”
    “Any guardianship or trusts that you set up when your children were little sprogs may no longer be needed.”
    “Kids will love the climbing wall and NZ′s highest vertical slide. If the sprogs get bored with reality, movie make-believe (p232) is right next door.”
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noun

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, countable, humorous, informal, uncountable)A child.
    “To test this hypothesis further, he and his mate Fifer persuaded 16 women, heavy with child, to read a story called The Cat in the Hat to their unborn sprogs, twice a day, during the last few weeks of their pregnancies.”
    “Any guardianship or trusts that you set up when your children were little sprogs may no longer be needed.”
    “Kids will love the climbing wall and NZ′s highest vertical slide. If the sprogs get bored with reality, movie make-believe (p232) is right next door.”
  2. (UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A new recruit.
  3. (Australia, dated, slang, uncountable)Semen.
  4. (countable, slang)A deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders.

verb

  1. (Australia, UK, humorous, slang)To produce children.
    “You must have been terrified, it′s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.”
    “‘How′s it all going with your boyo in the valleys? Any plans for sprogging or vows or anything serious yet?’”
    “‘Women lose their sexual drive after they′ve sprogged,’ Norman Potting interjected.”
  2. (Australia, slang)To ejaculate, to come.
    “2004, Kathryn Fox, Malicious Intent, Pan MacMillan Australia, unnumbered page, The kid was fathered by the same guy who sprogged into Debbie Finch′s throat.”

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Etymology

1940s, originally service slang. Perhaps from obsolete sprag (“lively young man”), of unknown origin.

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