What’s a Spraggle?

Technically “Spraggle” is the name that has been given to Michelle and Tony’s unborn baby. The name Spraggle was dubbed by Michelle immediately after she found out she was pregnant.

The word Spraggle is a portmanteau of Sprague (Tony and Michelle’s last name) and Fraggle (A type of creature from the 80’s puppetry TV show ‘Fraggle Rock’) Fraggle was a nickname given to Michelle by Tony’s father after she attempted to cheer him up when he had injured his back while on vacation. She was acting like a goofy puppet and her father in law said she looked like a Fraggle.

Fraggles were both male and female and since we do not yet know the sex of the baby the nickname seems to be an ambiguous way of referring to the baby without delineating gender.