What's the difference between spriggy and springy?

Spriggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of sprigs or small branches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A whimsical bird print or a spriggy floral can be pretty, but will give the impression you are about to be eaten alive, or trampled underfoot.

Springy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.
  • (superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
  • (2) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
  • (3) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
  • (4) People throughout Asia use springy bamboo poles to carry the loads of everyday life.
  • (5) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.
  • (6) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
  • (7) I put the recorder inside and hit it: a kind of springy reverb sound.
  • (8) In two other versions the pins are movable by means of special springs and volumetric elastic (springy) materials which allows to ensure electrical contact with uneven body surface.
  • (9) the process of healing was followed by regular structure of new aorta walls together with well developed flexible and springy fibre and neglidgeble immunological reactions.
  • (10) Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the sponges are well risen and springy to the touch and have shrunk slightly from the sides of the tin.
  • (11) Present problems are related to the possible need of an implant material of a more springy character tan that of the 2353 (316L) steel implant, used at present and also to reduce the manufacturing costs.
  • (12) Allow the dough to prove for 1½–2 hours, until it has doubled in size and is springy to the touch.
  • (13) The new design is characterized by functional mechanical action and by the presence of a system of springy planes.
  • (14) During more pronounced exercise loading, a reversible "springiness" of the fracture results, which might stimulate callus formation and improved stability.
  • (15) Check him out with a springy, teddyboy quiff, causing a fracas on the dancefloor in his first film, The Wild And The Willing , from 1962, or as a smouldering gypsy in 1965's Sky West And Crooked .

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