Definitions for spry

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Spelling: [sprahy]
IPA: /spraɪ/

Spry is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in spry (prsy).

Definitions for spry

adjective

  1. active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.

Origin of spry

First recorded in 1740-50; origin uncertain

Examples for spry

On YouTube, Letterman was no match for his spry, versatile competition.

I finds him walkin' around the grounds as spry as a two-year-old.

Once more, Zoppé: An Italian Family Circus—170 years old and spry as ever—is off and running.

Last year, at the less than spry age of 34, he broke two bones in his back while leading his Everton team to an FA Cup win.

He's that spry and full of jokes and he's gettin' right spoony.

We have to be spry about these things if we ever intend to get wedded at all.

Little Thunder was too spry to be caught by even a pursuing bullet.

Renowned fitness guru Jack LaLanne died yesterday, still dashing and spry just four years shy of 100.

He was old and snowy haired, but as fresh as a daisy and as spry as a cricket.

Listening on the other side of the court was Edith Windsor herself, a spry 83-year-old with bright eyes and a pixie-like smile.

Word Value for spry
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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