sprug

sprug (plural sprugs)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) house sparrow

Compare dialectal English sprug up (“dress neatly”), sprag (“prop”, verb)/sprag (“lively”, adjective).

sprug (third-person singular simple present sprugs, present participle sprugging, simple past and past participle sprugged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To smarten (make smart).

• “sprug”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• GURPS