Sprog vs Prog - What's the difference?

sprog | prog |

As nouns the difference between sprog and prog

is that sprog is (uk|australia|canada|new zealand|informal) a child while prog is threshold.

As a verb sprog

is (uk|australia|slang) to produce children.

sprog

English

Noun

(UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, informal) A child.

* 1984 September 13, Donald Gould, Forum: Suck it and see , page 54,

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.

* 2008 , Julian Knight, Wills, Probate, & Inheritance Tax For Dummies , UK Edition, unnumbered page,

Any guardianship or trusts that you set up when your children were little sprogs may no longer be needed.

* 2010 , Brett Atkinson, Sarah Bennett, Scott Kennedy, New Zealand?s South Island , Lonely Planet, page 220,

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.

(UK, military, RAF, slang) A new recruit.

(uncountable, Australia, slang) Semen.

(countable, slang) A deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders.

Synonyms

* (child) ankle-biter, bairn, crib lizard, kid, rug rat * (semen) cum, jizz, spoof

Derived terms

* sproglet

Verb

(sprogg)

(UK, Australia, slang) To produce children.

* 2007 , , Love Songs and Lies , unnumbered page,

You must have been terrified, it?s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.

* 2008 , , Over You , unnumbered page,

‘How?s it all going with your boyo in the valleys? Any plans for sprogging or vows or anything serious yet?’

* 2009 , , Dead Tomorrow , unnumbered page,

‘Women lose their sexual drive after they?ve sprogged ,’ Norman Potting interjected.

(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.

Synonyms

* (to ejaculate) spoof

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prog

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Adjective

(-)

Abbreviation of progressive.

* 2003 , Frank Moriarty, Seventies Rock: The Decade of Creative Chaos

Captain Beyond had tentatively dipped their toe in the uncharted American waters of prog rock, but in England, progression was the name of the game, with a host of bands elevating themselves ...

Noun

(en noun)

(label) Progressive rock

(computing, informal) A program.

* 2001 , "n.one", transfer progs from comp to comp'' (on newsgroup ''24hoursupport.helpdesk )

* 2001', "Yoda", ''How do I get '''progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?'' (on newsgroup ''linux.redhat )

* 2003 , "Leo Edwards", Automating the Windows backup prog to commence backups?'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.win98.apps )

I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.

proctor

Etymology 2

Noun

(slang, obsolete) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.

(Jonathan Swift)

* (Robert Browning)

So long as he picked from the filth his prog .

(slang, obsolete) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.

Verb

(progg)

(obsolete, slang) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek advantage by mean tricks.

* Fuller

a perfect artist in progging for money

* Burke

I have been endeavouring to prog for you.

(obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.

(Johnson)

(Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.

(Webster 1913)

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