sprung
/spɹʌŋ/ adjectif B2En français : à ressorts, mordu
- Fitted or cushioned with springs. · Near-synonym: spring-loaded· a sprung mattress
- Worn out such that the springiness has dissipated. · My old money clip was sprung, so I replaced it.
- Utterly infatuated with someone; completely taken over by romantic interest; originally and literally, having a penile erection.
- drunk.
Dans la bibliothèque
The Lone Wolf must have sprung and missed his hold, for Mowgli heard the snap of his teeth and then a yelp as the Sambhur knocked him over with his forefoot.
His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away.
Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette,” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
But Gilbert had also sprung from the boat and now laid a detaining hand on her arm.
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