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sprattle

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

noun: A scramble or struggle.

verb intr.: To scramble or struggle.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Scottish sprattle, from switching of sounds in spartle (to scatter). Earliest documented use: 1500.

USAGE:

"I watched him sprattle

as bugs do sprattle

with their legs like so, like bugs's legs, stretched out and sprattling."

Walter Nash; The Language of Humour; Routledge; 1985.

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