Definition of spry
: able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble sense 1
—used especially to describe an older person a spry 75-year-old… his spry libidinous grandfather …— Stanley KauffmannMatthew is getting up in years, you know—he's sixty—and he isn't so spry as he once was.— Charles Keller
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The first known use of spry was in 1746
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