Noun: Jack Sprat
| Singular | Jack Sprat |
| Plural | Jack Sprats |
Sample Sentences
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John Redford, The Play of Wit & Science
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Heard you ever such a counsel of such a Jack sprat?
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The other van pulled up behind us, its super-skinny driver, a Jack Sprat to the large guy driving our van, grinning widely as he cut the engine. [2009, Rupert Isaacson, The Horse Boy: A Father's Miraculous Journey to Heal His Son:]
Nouns inflected like Jack Sprat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
The name of a character in an old poem, who would eat no fat.