sprig

From Middle English sprig, sprigge, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Low German sprik, spricke (“a dry, easily broken twig that has fallen from a tree; sprig”). Compare also dialectal English sprag (“sprig, twig”), English spray (“branch”), Old English spræc (“a shoot”), German Low German Spricke, Sprick (“dry branch, twig”).

sprig (plural sprigs)

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray.
a sprig of laurel or of parsley
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
  […] from this bush in the dooryard, / With delicate-color’d blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, / A sprig with its flower I break.
- 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
  “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. […] "
An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig.
One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace.
(humorous, sometimes mildly derogatory) A youth; a lad.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
  a sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago
A brad, or nail without a head.
A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
A house sparrow.

small shoot or twig

Arabic: عَسْلُوج m (ʕaslūj)
Armenian: շիվ (hy) (šiv)
Bulgarian: клонче (bg) n (klonče), вейка (bg) f (vejka)
Czech: snítka f, větvička (cs) f
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Finnish: oksa (fi), lehvä (fi), verso (fi); havu (fi)
French: brin (fr), rameau (fr)
German: Zweiglein n, Büschchen n, Büschel (de) n
Hungarian: ágacska (hu)
Italian: rametto (it) m
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تەڵ (tell)
Maori: tākupu
Norwegian: kvist m, dusk (no) m (of parsely), liten grein (no) c, bukett m (single part of a cauliflower)
Occitan: ramelet (oc) m
Polish: gałązka (pl) f
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Russian: ве́точка (ru) f (vétočka), побе́г (ru) m (pobég)
Spanish: ramita f
Swedish: kvist (sv) c
Telugu: రెమ్మ (te) (remma)
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