spruce
- IPA[spruːs]
英式
- engage in pretence or deception, especially by feigning illness;deceive
verb: spruce, 3rd person present: spruces, gerund or present participle: sprucing, past tense: spruced, past participle: spruced
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. British informal, dated engage in pretence or deception, especially by feigning illness he's no fool; he'd have known if she was sprucing
- ▪ British informal, dated deceive they spruced you proper