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sproul, sprall noun a sister, brother or daughter 20-. Compare prawl, naismort’s prawl, naismort’s sproul etymology: possibly a development from Romany prawl ‘a brother’ or as attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies ‘a daughter’; sense ‘sister, brother’ attested by SS; ‘brother’ attested by BS in TDITA; collected by EMcC/PS note:

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites the form sproul ‘a brother; a daughter’.