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  • sprizzle
    [from SPRY to rain lightly + drizzle] v. to sprinkle (of rain): 1940 I radder fer it t' rain hard twice
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  • spring chicken
    [W Car. idem, E Car. mountain chicken idem; from its taste, resembling that of chicken] n. frog legs, as food: I hear
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  • sprig
    n. [OED a shoot, twig, or spray of a plant; cf. also v.] 1. a strand (of hair). (Gen.) 2. the
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  • sprickles
    [W Car.; by hypercorrection of initial consonant cluster] n. prickles; thorns. (Black)
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  • spricket
    See SPICKET.
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  • spread (out)
    [MCC idem; cf. OED spread v. to flatten out, n. bed-cover] v. to make (a bed): She spread de old
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  • sprat jack
    [cf. OED sprat a small herring or any of various small fishes + JACK; said to eat only sprats, but the
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  • spotted soapfish
    n. a fish, Rypticus subbifrenatus: 1968 (Böhlke 291). (Mayag.)
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  • spot-fin hagfish
    n. a fish, Bodianus pulchellus: 1968 (Böhlke 451). (Exuma, San Sal.)
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  • spoon wood
    [OED, W3 different sp., formerly used to make spoons; the Bah. sp. has spoon-shaped leaves] n. a tree,Maytenus buxifolia: 1905 (Shattuck 240).
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