Spruce

Noun

 * 1) Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
 * 2) The wood of a spruce.

Adjective

 * 1)  Made of the wood of the spruce.
 * 2)  Being from a spruce tree.
 * 3)  Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

Verb

 * 1) (usually with up) to arrange neatly; tidy up
 * 2) (usually with up) to make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance)
 * 3) to tease

Derived terms

 * spruce up

Adverbs for Spruce
jauntily; nattily; unusually; habitually; attractively; smugly; carefully; designedly; unwontedly; remarkably; consciously; admirably; proudly; curiously; noticeably; conspicuously.

Thesaurus
anal, bandbox, bowdlerized, braw, chic, classy, clean up, cleaned, cleaned up, cleansed, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dinky, doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressed up, elegant, en grande tenue, endimanche, expurgated, exquisite, genteel, gussied up, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, jaunty, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, primp, purged, purified, recherche, refined, reformed, ritzy, sassy, sharp, shipshape, sleek, slick, slicked up, smart, smarten up, smug, snazzy, snug, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce up, straighten out, straighten up, style-conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, tidy, tidy up, tight, titivate, tricksy, trig, trim, well turned-out, well-cared-for, well-dressed, well-groomed

Etymology
From, an alteration of Pruce:. Spruce:, spruse: (1412), and Sprws: (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim, neat" and "to make trim, neat") are attested from 1594, and originate with spruce leather (1466), which was used to make a popular style of jerkins in the 1400s that was considered smart-looking.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: bredhi i zi, hormoç
 * Alemannic German:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: picea
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Catalan: avet roig
 * Cheyenne:
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: куз (kuz)
 * Esperanto: piceo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, épinette
 * Friulian:
 * Galician: picea
 * Georgian: ნაძვი
 * German:
 * Greek: ερυθρελάτη (erythrelati)
 * Hebrew: אשוחית
 * Hungarian:, luc
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: picea
 * Italian: abete rosso, peccio
 * Japanese: トウヒ, バラモミ,  マツハダ,  エゾマツ
 * Kashubian:
 * Korean: 가문비 나무
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: picea
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: sjpar
 * Lithuanian:


 * Lombard:, ,
 * Low Saxon:
 * Luxembourgish: Fiicht, Fiichten
 * Macedonian: смрча (smrka)
 * Mandarin: 雲杉 (yúnshān), 云杉
 * Mongolian: гацуур (gatsuur)
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian Nynorsk:
 * Novial: abiete
 * Occitan: picea
 * Ossetian:
 * Piedmontese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: abeto vermelho, pícea,  espruce
 * Quechua: pisya
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ель (jel’)
 * Samogitian:
 * Saterland Frisian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: omorika, smrča
 * Slovak: smrek
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: picea
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: p’ȍk’úowoną
 * Tatar: еш, серше,  терке
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ялиця
 * Upper Sorbian: šmrěk
 * Vietnamese: vân sam
 * Walloon: epiceya
 * Welsh: sbriwsen
 * Yakut:


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: spar, sparrenhout
 * Finnish:


 * German: Fichtenholz
 * Russian: ель (jel’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Adjective

 * Finnish: kuusipuinen, kuusesta


 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: нарядный (nar'ádnyj), элегантный (el'egántnyj), изящный (iz'áš'nyj), щеголеватый (š'egol'evátyj)

Anagrams

 * cusper