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語源

From 中期英語 sprotte, from 古期英語 sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.

発音

• IPA: /spɹæt/
• 韻: -æt

名詞

sprat (plural sprat or sprats)

1. Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
2. Any of various similar fish of other genera.
3. (by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.
4. (UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
   • 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:

     The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.

派生語

関連する語

• spratting

参考

• pilchard
• sardine

参照

• (sixpence): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

動詞

sprat (third-person singular simple present sprats, present participle spratting, simple past and past participle spratted)

1. (transitive, historical) To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).
   • 1923, The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming, volume 98, page 190:

     […] spratting the land. This treatment is supplemented by about half a ton of artificial manure, largely made up of a mixture of superphosphate and some nitrogenous manure.

アナグラム

• S trap, TRAPS, parts, prats, rapts, strap, tarps, traps