Spruce

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Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having flattened or four-angled needlelike leaves, a conic shape, pendulous cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp. noun

Any of various similar or related trees. noun

The wood of any of these trees. noun

A grayish green to dark greenish black. noun

Neat, trim, and smart in appearance. adjective

To make neat and trim. intransitive verb

To make oneself neat and smart in appearance. intransitive verb

Smart in dress and appearance; affecting neatness or dapperness, especially in dress; trim; hence often, with a depreciatory force, dandified; smug.

Over-fastidious; excessively nice; finical.

Synonyms Foppish, etc. (see finical), smart, jaunty, nice, dandyish.

An abbreviation of spruce-beer. noun

To make spruce; trim or dress so as to present a smart appearance: sometimes followed by up.

To brown, as the crust of bread, by heating the oven too much.

To become spruce; assume or affect an air of smartness in dress: often followed by up.

A coniferous tree of the genus Picea; a spruce-fir. noun

P. Engelmanni, the most valuable timber-tree of the central Rocky Mountain region, where it forms extensive forests. Its wood is of a white or pale-yellow color, light and soft, in Colorado affording lumber, fuel, and charcoal. The bark is rich in tannin, which is locally utilized. noun

P. pungens, a rare and local mountain species of the western United States. Also called blue spruce, Colorado blue spruce. noun

Prussian leather. Compare Pruce. noun

Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See picea. noun

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.

The wood of a spruce.

(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.

Prussian leather; pruce.

Spruce n. or adj. a slightly more highclass word for cool cool = filler in a sentence spruce = mhm, i hear ya and think that what you are saying is beyond average cooldom Urban Dictionary

A kind of tree Urban Dictionary

Someone who has been outcast by the adolescent society by an act of humiliation (or 'sprucing'). Order of Spruce: Spruce McGinty - lil bit of a Spruce Spruce McGriggins - more of a Spruce (eg. ugly person workin in mcdonalds) Spruce Baily - average Spruce Spruce McGoy - Big Spruce (total twat) SPRUCE MCDUFF - ULTIMATE WANKSTAIN!! Urban Dictionary

The Spruce, The Spruzla or The Spruce Moose are forms to describe a small shantytown where the consumption of dakka takes place on at least a twice daily basis, whilst still maintaining a floor garbage height level of no less than 30cm. Urban Dictionary

A word that originated from a simpsons episode presumably meaning good, a-ok, excellent. Urban Dictionary

Another form of spruce is a Spruce Brannigans. Basically this is a little bastard who wears a back pack that is twice as big as him. Little fokkers! Urban Dictionary

To be touched inappropriately by a tall, skinny, white man. Urban Dictionary

To be touched inappropriately by a tall skinny guy Urban Dictionary

To get a broom or circular pole or something similar to that shoved up your anus hole. Made up on an army camp in april 2005 Urban Dictionary

A common thing for Finnish people to burn for fire, Russians, slav ethic groups, and other nords may also do this. On rare occasion, a dumb american fuck can also burn it because they once heard this. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to spruce:
spruce, sprue, sprucy, pruce, spruch.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spruce:
abies, larch, tamarack, lodgepole, fir, balsam, quaking, hemlock, trembling, spars, sitka, plywood, birch, populus, aspen, grouse, pinus, alder, boreal, understory, taiga, pine, poplar, ply, rhododendron, conifer, coniferous, ponderosa, beech, needles, rosewood, knob, juniper, goose, gall, mahogany, mariana, meadows, cottonwood, deciduous, spar, yew, bog, maple, sycamore, ribs, hardwood, rubens, cedar, spp, cones, tundra, grove, pines, rust, trees, forests, shrubs, beetle, bark, willow, redwood, cypress, fungus, moose, fabric, evergreen, scots, moth, logs, walnut, gum, planted, canopy, ash, lumber, drained, logging, tree, fuselage, oak, forest, tops, woods, ridges, cockpit, vegetation, alberta, dominate, abundant, dwarf, moss, alpine, wetlands, fraser, slopes, woodland, deer, mountain, alaska.

Words that rhyme with spruce:
loose, obtuse, use, abuse, produce, induce, goose, introduce, juice, diffuse, abstruse, reduce, deuce, deduce, excuse, recluse, nous, sluice, moose, truce, profuse, noose, seduce, luce, mousse, reuse, chartreuse, disabuse, misuse, caboose, zeus, reproduce, duce, bruce, footloose, douce, prepuce, coos, disuse, reintroduce, seuss, boose, yous, canada goose, foose, let loose, pruce, cuisse, hoose, substance abuse, neuss, brent goose, on the loose, break loose, grape juice, snow goose, tyus, apple juice, il duce, mother goose, overproduce, in use, blue goose, drug abuse, barnacle goose, carnal abuse, carrot juice, child abuse, out of use, brant goose, robert the bruce, gastric juice, hair mousse, pineapple juice, alcohol abuse, pancreatic juice, orange juice, reuss, greylag goose, cruce, canadian goose, fruit juice, lemon juice, slip noose, solan goose, tomato juice, chocolate mousse, cranberry juice, drug of abuse, preuss, flag of truce, chinese goose, druce, alcoholic abuse, grapefruit juice, running noose, tobacco juice, asmus, common brant goose, context of use.

Adjectives that are often used to describe spruce:
white, black, red, blue, tall, young, small, stunted, big, dead, european, common, dark, green, thick, eastern, dense, giant, inch, mature, hemlock, canadian, western, dry, interior, pure, huge, serbian, growth, northern, norwegian, clear, siberian, fir, fallen, foot, beautiful, virgin, native, oriental, mighty, pine, scattered, solid, mixed, himalayan, grained, norway, neat, occasional, grown, cone, tideland, silver, scrubby, nearby, growing, yellow, gnarled, swamp, sitka, laminated, skunk, enormous, stately, fragrant, tallest, alpine, healthy, golden, dwarfed, slender, lone.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective spruce:
fir, forest, beer, trees, street, tree, firs, pine, bark, gum, birch, wood, creek, hat, wig, moose, budworm, alder, boughs, hardwood, woodland, mite, partridge, zone, forests, limit, hemlock, bog, balsam, beams, shoot, gradient, branches, headers, root.

Consonant match to spruce:
sprouse.

Words that sound like spruce:
spruce, sprouse, spross, sprues, sprees, sprays, spurts, spirts, sprue, spruced, sprew, sperse, sprucy, spru, sprucer, space, spice, spray, spouse, spree, sprouts, spurs, suppress, spry, sprit, cyprus, cypress, spurious, spritz, cerise, sprites, serous, spews, sprits, sperms, spurns, spors, speece, spece, sprow, cypris, spri, sprats, spis, spruik, ceris, spro, spos, sprache, cyperus, saros, spiss, sprut, saporous, spus, cirrhus, asperous, spruit, spues, sprach, struse, speiss, spurius, spurry, oppress, appress, cyrus, saurus, cirlce, cirrus, saris, scearce, cerse, preuss, saras, sarts, asperse, saru, sarees, ospreys, sarus, cypres, circs, pruce, sarris, seeress, ceras, sarks, cirse, sarse, serres, cirques, cy pres, psps, sbus, ciris, searce, c.p.u, cerris, sea purse.