subs. (common).—A young dandy; any well-groomed youngster.

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  1637.  SHIRLEY, Hyde Park, i. 1.

          Tri.  A SPRIG of the nobility,
That has a spirit equal to his fortunes.

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  1812.  COMBE, Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, xix.

        An arch young SPRIG, a banker’s clerk,
Resolv’d to hoax the rev’rend spark.

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