spruce

Значение (Английский)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
2. (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
3. (attributive, countable, uncountable) Made of the wood of the spruce.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Prussian leather; pruce.

Adj

Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

Verb

1. (usually, with-up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
2. (ambitransitive, usually, with-up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
3. To tease.

Синонимы

smart

neat

fir

dapper

trim

spruce up

spiffy

smarten up

slick up

groom

stylish

spruce-fir

well-groomed

titivate

tittivate

natty

jaunty

rakish

handsome

posh

pine

dashing

look chic

preen

spruce fir

white wood

be gaudily dressed

be smart

spiff up

orderly

trig

well groomed

be beautiful

neater

snappy

dressed up

raffish

be elegant

tidy

great

grand

decorate

graceful

gorgeous

deck

cleanse

glorious

funky

debonair

prim

Переводы

épicéa

Fichte

spar

épinette

abeto

abete rosso

picea

avet roig

Fichten

abeto

abeto vermelho

peccio

Picea

sapin

Произносится как (IPA)

/spɹuːs/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: Spruce

In summary

From Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.