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▪ I. † ˈsparky, n. Obs.—1
[f. spark n.2 + -y.]
A spark or gallant.
1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 196 Miss Collier the cousine is a well-looked little lassie, and severall little sparkies were in love with her.
▪ II. sparky, a.|ˈspɑːkɪ|
[f. spark n.1 or v.1]
1.
†a. Of velvet: Spotted with gold or some similar material. Obs.—1
Cf. sparked ppl. a. 2, and ‘sparke of veluet Sackets’ in Dekker Work for Armourers (1608) G ij.
1620in Blunt Ch. Chester-le-Street (1884) 85 Paid for twelve yeards of sparkie velvett for the pulpitt cloth, as 4s. y⊇ yearde, 48s.
b. dial. Of cattle: Mottled; = sparked ppl. a. 1.
1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Sparkey, or Sparkled, spotted, sprinkled. A sparkey cow. 1837–in dial. glossaries (Devon, Somerset, Wilts.). 1869Daily News 8 Dec., The second pure Devon in the young class..showed in fine contrast with the very ‘sparky’ one in the older class.
2. Emitting sparks; also, lively, vivacious.
1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. II. 298 The Archivarius caught these lilies blazing in sparky fire and dashed them on the witch. c1865G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 147 Thus he..Gilds with some sparky fancies his black night. 1883in W. W. Peyton Life H. Miller ii. 21 Few like him for sport, a stirring, sparkie callant. 1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover x. 134 Pure, sparky, fearless new life! 1979Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 15/2 If they [sc. the films] are all as sparky as these larks they deserve support. |