spry n 1858 [LOWELL] The New Priest in Conception Bay regularly employs a 'y spelling for most -ai/ay words. For other [ai] prons of common words spelled -ay, see SED iv, 237-8 hay, W Do Ha, and in the questionnaire index daisy, faint, tail, whey, weigh.
1979 COOPER 11 "The Boy and the Piggin": My Da a'ways jigs wid two lines hove out,/De spry flies high when he's jiggin.
