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Someone, especially an old person, who is spry, is lively and active. The old gentleman was as spry as ever. = sprightly ADJ: usu v-link ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective (sprier or ~er; spriest or ~est) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1746 nimble 1 a ~ 75-year-old • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (spryer, spryest) active, lively. Derivatives spryly adv. spryness n. Etymology: 18th c., dial. & US: orig. unkn. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1746, dialectal, perhaps a shortening and alteration of sprightly, or from a Scand. source (cf. dialectal Swed. sprygg "brisk, active"), from P.Gmc. *sprek-, from PIE *(s)preg- "to jerk, scatter." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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