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Sparky

name

Etymology

From the adjective sparky (“lively, animated”).

  1. derived from *sperg-✻
  2. derived from *sparkaz✻ — “lively, energetic”
  3. inherited from *sparkō✻
  4. inherited from spearca
  5. inherited from sparke
  6. suffixed as sparky — “spark + y”

Definitions

  1. A nickname for a person who is lively and animated.

  2. A name for a pet, traditionally especially a dog, with similar connotations.

  3. Lively and animated.

    • 1986 July, Texas Monthly, page 103, Anthony's certainly hasn′t achieved the consistent level of Tony′s, but the menu is sparkier, more up to the minute.
    • She was recruited on the spot, completing a highly controversial line-up that would go on to produce some of the sparkiest, sassiest music of the early 80s.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Resembling or characteristic of an electrical spark.

      • […] a sparky sound too. A little high-pitched crack.

    2. A radio operator.

    3. An electrician.

      • […]the manager of one of the largest hotels, also a committee member ‘let it be known that sparkies working for the hotel should be involved in the programme. The next day saw three very keen contractors ring us up to enrol.’
      • Pete said that the sparkies, the electricians, had turned the power off.

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Derived

sparkily, sparkiness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Sparky. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA