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    In a neat, clean, smart-looking way. It is the adverb from 'spruce', and it almost always describes how someone is dressed or how they look: 'sprucely dressed', 'sprucely turned out'. The picture is a person whose clothes are clean, pressed, and put together with care — not expensive, not fashionable, just tidy and correct. It carries a small warm feeling of approval, and often a slight old-fashioned flavour; it is the kind of word you meet in novels or in a newspaper describing an older gentleman at a wedding, more than in daily speech. Younger speakers today would more likely say 'smartly dressed' or just 'he looked really neat'. Note that it is nearly frozen to appearance — you would not say a room was 'sprucely arranged', even though you can 'spruce up' a room.

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組成spruce (neat, smart) + -ly, the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb (how something is done). The adjective 'spruce' meaning 'neat' is thought to come from 'Spruce leather', an old English name for leather from Prussia, which was considered smart.

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  • spruce upsame 'spruce' — to make something neater or smarter

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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sprucelyadv

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    In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.

    • 'Ah ! Hawk,' said one very sprucely dressed personage in a Newmarket coat, a choice neckerchief, and all other accessories of the most unexceptionable kind.

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