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Literature | Jack Sprat A dwarf; as if sprats were dwarf mackerels. Children, by a similar metaphor, are called small fry. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | JACK SPRAT. A dwarf, or diminutive fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
jack sprat | 31 |
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| Language | Translations for "JACK SPRAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | ничтожество (insect, jack-straw, lay, nitwit, nobody, nothingness, nought, nullity, whiffet, whippersnapper, whipper-snapper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tầm thường (cipher, nobody, nothing, philistine, scrub), người nhỏ nhen. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-j-k-p-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: carats, karats, parkas, satrap, tracks. | |
-4 letters: apart, araks, ataps, carat, carks, carps, carts, craps, jacks, kapas, karat, karst, karts, katas, pacas, packs, pacts, paras, parka, parks, parts, pasta, prats, racks, rajas, sacra, scarp, scart, scrap, spark, sprat, stack, stark, strap, tacks, takas, tapas, tarps, track, traps. | |
-5 letters: acta, acts, ajar, arak, arcs, arks. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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