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How to pronounce sprog in English?

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Type Words
Type of youngster, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, tiddler, small fry, tike, tyke, child, fry, kid
Type Words
Type of recruit, military recruit

Examples of sprog

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Once the wife decides it is sprog time I will have no choice I suppose.
From the guardian.co.uk
Let the sprog use that, and spend the money you save taking him out more.
From the guardian.co.uk
Kids were much better behaved when I were a sprog, and had great respect for their elders.
From the guardian.co.uk
And to think I used to bring him over to worship at the Theatre of Dreams as a chubby sprog.
From the guardian.co.uk
It has grown up, like a Beckham sprog, in the glare of publicity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Each sprog under five added 20 minutes to her weekday housework time, but just a couple of minutes to his.
From the economist.com
Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog.
From the en.wikipedia.org
An experienced specialised service iow that saved money and didn't leave you with unneeded car seats when the sprog grows.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's great to see they got the band back together, even if Michael Anthony's been pushed out in favour of Eddie's sprog.
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More examples
  • A new military recruit
  • A child
  • Sprog is graphical tool to build Perl programs by plugging parts (called "gears" in Sprog terminology) together. Given the available gears are mostly for reading and processing data, this program can probably be classified as an ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tool.
  • Child; semen; British Armed Forces new recruit; to ejaculate, to come
  • (Sprogs) raw, untrained recruits
  • N. Another affectionate word for a small child. My father used to refer to myself and my brothers as "Sprog One", "Sprog Two" and "Sprog Three". Perhaps that says more about my family than the English language. At least I got to be Sprog One.
  • A "new boy" fresh from training
  • A baby. Mainly said by males.
  • New/inexperienced marine