sprat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sprat (plural sprat or sprats)
- Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
- Any of various similar fish of other genera.
- (by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
- 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:
- The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
Derived terms[edit]
- a sprat to catch a mackerel, throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
- European sprat (Sprattus sprattus)
- slender sprat (Spratelloides gracilis)
- spratlike
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
any of various small marine fish in the genus Sprattus
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- (sixpence): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
sprat m (plural sprats)
Further reading[edit]
- “sprat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sprȁt m (Cyrillic spelling спра̏т)
Declension[edit]
Declension of sprat
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sprat | spratovi |
genitive | sprata | spratova |
dative | spratu | spratovima |
accusative | sprat | spratove |
vocative | sprate | spratovi |
locative | spratu | spratovima |
instrumental | spratom | spratovima |
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:спрат.
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