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Sprog is British slang for a child or a baby, used jokingly and . It sounds cheerful and slightly rough — the kind of word a dad uses about his own kids down the pub: 'I've got to get back, the sprogs are waiting.' Because it is joking, it works when you are talking about your own children or a friend's, but it would be rude to say to a stranger about their baby, and you would never use it in writing that needs to sound serious. 'To have a sprog' or 'to drop a sprog' is a way to say to have a baby. It is very British — Australians use it too — and Americans will often not know it at all. It began as forces slang in the 1940s, where it also meant a new, recruit, and older military people may still use it that way.
（英式俚語，帶玩笑親暱意味）小孩、小鬼、小娃兒；語感像半開玩笑地說「我家那幾隻」
組成1940s British service slang. Where it came from is not certain — one suggestion is an old word sprag meaning 'a lively young man', but nobody is sure, so treat the origin as an open question.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sprognoun/spɹɒɡ/
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informalA 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.
- Any guardianship or trusts that you set up when your children were little sprogs may no longer be needed.
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derogatoryslanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA new recruit.
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datedslangSemen.
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slangA deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders.
sprogverb/spɹɒɡ/
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slangTo produce children.
- You must have been terrified, it′s not like today with film stars sprogging babies everywhere.
- ‘How′s it all going with your boyo in the valleys? Any plans for sprogging or vows or anything serious yet?’
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slangTo 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。