sprackness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sprackness (uncountable)
- (UK, dialectal) The quality of being sprack, lively, full of energy.
- 1869, William Barnes, Early England and the Saxon-English, page 64:
- The Saxon's mind, and above all in the young, is destructive, and his sprackness wants the guidance of refined thought, […]
- 1925, Radclyffe Hall, A Saturday Life:
- She smoked in silence for a minute or two while Lady Shore sat and blinked at her, struck as always by her friend's personality, by her wonderful, shining sprackness. Her dark hair shone, especially on the temples, […]