Spruce vs Spruceness - What's the difference?
spruce | spruceness |
Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
(uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
(obsolete) Prussia leather; pruce.
* E. Phillips
(comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
* 1919 ,
* 2012 , The Economist, 13th Oct 2012,
To arrange neatly; tidy up.
) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To tease.
As nouns the difference between spruce and spruceness
is that spruce is any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus picea , found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir while spruceness is the property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant.As an adjective spruce
is (comparable) smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).As a verb spruce
is to arrange neatly; tidy up.spruce
English
Noun
(en-noun)- That spruce table is beautiful!
- Spruce , a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather.
See also
* (Spruce) * (Picea)Adjective
(er)- He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.
Plessey returns: Chips with everything
- The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.
