sprog
Britishnoun
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a child; baby
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(esp in RAF) a recruit
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The pleasure people get from debating the name of the latest royal will be in no way diminished if the little sprog doesn’t stand to inherit a residual income from the Duchy of Cornwall.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2019
The abolition from next year of some child benefits for the third sprog onwards has little economic rationale.
From Economist ● Mar. 23, 2016
Which must make her husband and sprog feel just peachy.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
It has grown up, like a Beckham sprog, in the glare of publicity.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
Her plan goes hilariously wrong, and she's required to find herself a proper fiancé, with whom she goes on to raise a conventionally sired sprog.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2010
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