Now dial. [Of obscure origin: some dialects have sprunny adj., spruce, smart.] A sweetheart.
1762. Collins’s Misc., 111. Where if good Satan lays her on like thee, Whipp’d to some Purpose will thy Sprunny be.
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, Sprunny, a sweetheart of either sex.
1814–. in midland and eastern dialects.
