sprat

IPA: sprˈæt

Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
Any of various similar fish of other genera.
(by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.

Examples of "sprat" in Sentences

Even Barack Obama might think that a very fat sprat to catch a rather bony mackerel.
I loved his robot books and Lucky Starr novels when I was a sprat but as an adult, eh.
But ever since I was a sprat I have been given this vague half-formed yet tremendously potent feeling that rock music meant something.
There is Princess Gloriana amid sea demigods with conch-shell trumpets and mer-people and fishes of every size from sprat to leviathan.
Lud-in-the-Mist was one of my very first fantasy books read it years ago when I was but a sprat and nothing has ever quite come up to that standard.
Glissaundra is my godmother, bless her, and when I was a sprat she once gave me a jar filled with a powder that she said would restore things to their true forms.
Truth be told, everything passed me by in the 1980's because that was our three babies in four years decade and mostly I was either a beached whale or a frazzled sprat.
That most extensively employed in this country is the sprat, which is occasionally caught in enormous quantities on the Norfolk coast, and used as an application for turnips.
They save the evil gods for the DMG since no right thinking young sprat would want their PC to worship one of them, but they do list them – Asmodeus, Bane, Gruumsh, Lolth, Tiamat, Vecna, and newcomers Torog (Underdark) and Zehir (dark, poison, assassins – Pyremius and Beltar merged).