Definitions for sprigs

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IPA: /sprɪg/

Sprigs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in sprigs (giprss).

Definitions for sprigs

noun

1. a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
2. an ornament having the form of such a spray.
3. a shoot, twig, or small branch.
4. Facetious. a scion, offspring, or heir of a family, class, etc.
5. a youth or young fellow.
6. glazier's point.
7. a headless brad.
8. Metallurgy. a small peg for reinforcing the walls of a mold. a metal insert, used to chill certain portions of cast metal, that becomes an integral part of the finished casting.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or decorate (fabrics, pottery, etc.) with a design of sprigs.
2. to fasten with brads.
3. Horticulture. to propagate a plant, especially grass, by planting individual stolons.
4. Metallurgy. to reinforce the walls of (a mold) with sprigs.
5. to remove a sprig or sprigs from (a plant).

Origin of sprigs

1300-50; Middle English sprigge (noun); origin uncertain; sense “peg” perhaps of distinct orig.; cf. sprag¹, spray²

Examples for sprigs

Here's a little mignonette I put in the bottom, so't everybody could have a sprig.

Willie generally cuts me off with a sprig for my button-hole.

Chop up a stick of celery, a sprig of parsley, a carrot, an onion.

Let it cool and then pour over the fish that is to be served with a sprig of parsley.

A white frock and a little sentiment,—a sprig of jessamine and a bit of poetry!

He held a sprig of laurel in his hand during the time he was confined in the pillory.

"You mustn't go, of course, until you have seen the chickens," said Mr. sprig.

“That is Mr Ashurst, a sprig of nobility of some sort,” was the answer.

It is not, however, stated why or when this sprig was conferred.

Even the celebrated shot of Uncle Paulie cutting garlic with a razor blade has a sprig of parsley in the foreground.