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Sprog vs Sprug - What's the difference?

sprog | sprug |

As verbs the difference between sprog and sprug

is that sprog is (uk|australia|slang) to produce children while sprug is (obsolete) to make smart.

As a noun sprog

is (uk|australia|canada|new zealand|informal) a child.

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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    sprug

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To make smart.
    • (Webster 1913)