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sprog|sprɒg|
[Cf. sprag n.2]
1. Services' slang. A new recruit; a trainee; a novice. Also occas., one of inferior or ordinary rank. Freq. attrib.
1941New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Sprog (R.A.F.), a tyro. 1942Word Study Dec. 6/2 ‘Hey, sprog,’ said the corporal, ‘how about us gettin' another cliner?’ 1943J. Hillier in Penguin New Writing XVI. 23 Never mind, Wendy, you sprogs of ‘B’ flight will learn to fly yet—if you live long enough! 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 164 Sprog, a new entry. 1949J. R. Cole It was so Late 62 Each time a new course of pilots arrived the sprog officers among them used to fall over themselves after her. 1970C. Wood ‘Terrible Hard’ says Alice ii. 31 Pasty-faced sprog subalterns. 1978F. Branston Sergeant Ritchie's Conscience i. 12 Some sprog copper, so new he did not even recognize him.
2. slang (orig. Naut.). A youngster; a child, a baby.
1945‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor vii. 75, I can't deny him nothing. Always giving the sprog a tanner to nip off and buy himself some nutty. 1949in Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Add. 1181/2 Nobby Clark's gone on leave, his wife's just had a sprog. 1968‘O. Mills’ Sundry Fell Designs x. 115 All those sprogs, and that ghastly earth⁓mother missus. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 64 Here I attempted a few minutes' work, not easy because the fifty bawling sprogs had classes there in the afternoon. 1981D. Clark Longest Pleasure ii. 14, I don't think he's been really with us since the sprog came along. |