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sprog
noun- a baby; a child UK, 1706
From obsolete “sprag” (a lively young fellow). - Well, it appears that between us we had a sprog, but she never cracked on about it, and I didn’t tumble to it. — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin, p. 58, 1965
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 96, 1984
- [T]he monarchy has been a dab hand at the old import/export game, despatching the sprogs round the world to keep associated royal families up to strength. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 12, 1994
- [D]o the lot of them at the earliest possible opportunity, male sprogs especially. — James Hawes, Dead Long Enough, p. 81, 2000
- a recruit UK, 1941
Royal Air Force originally, then Royal Navy, now police. Probably derives from obsolete “sprag” (1706) “a lively young fellow” but etymological theories abound: a reversal of “frog spawn”–because it’s so very green; a confusion of “cog and sprocket”–a metaphor with the recruit just a cog (a sprocket) in a wheel; a distortion of “sprout”; it has also been claimed that a “sprog” is “a young gannet”. - Fifteen years ago I was a fresh-faced sprog straight out of police training college[.] — FHM, p. 250, June 2003
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- — Gary Simes, Gay Perspectives, p. 55, 1992
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