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sprog

/spɹɒɡ/ Australia, UK
/sprɔɡ/ Canada, US
/sprɑɡ/ cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɒɡ, -ɔɡ, -ɑɡ

Where it comes from

1940s, originally service slang. Perhaps from obsolete sprag (“lively young man”), of unknown origin.

noun sprogs

Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, countable A child. To test this hypothesis further, he and his mate Fifer persuaded 16 women, heavy with child, to read a story called The Cat in the Hat to their unborn sprogs, twice a day, during the last few weeks of their pregnancies.
Similar: ankle-biter, bairn, crib lizard, crotch fruit, crotch goblin, kid, rug rat
UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable A new recruit.
Australia, dated, slang, uncountable Semen.
Similar: cum, jizz, spoof
countable, slang A deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders.

verb sprogs · sprogging · sprogged

Australia, UK, humorous, slang To produce children. You must have been terrified, it′s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.
Australia, slang To ejaculate, to come. 2004, Kathryn Fox, Malicious Intent, Pan MacMillan Australia, unnumbered page, The kid was fathered by the same guy who sprogged into Debbie Finch′s throat.
Similar: spoof, blow one's load, blow one's wad, blow a nut, breed, bust, bust a nut, come, cream, cum, ejaculate, explode

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@misc{sprog_2026,
  title = {sprog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sprog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}