How to pronounce spry

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What spry means

adjective

Lively and active, especially for someone older

In a sentence: Grandpa is still spry enough to beat us all at tag.

Where it comes from: It comes from "sprey," an old word in British dialect, and before that from a Norse word meaning nimble and lively.

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