2. Verb. (third-person singular of scrunt) ¹
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Definition of Scrunts
1. scrunt [n] - See also: scrunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrunts
Literary usage of Scrunts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spare Hours by John Brown (1866)
"A lang dreich road, ye had better let it be; Save some auld scrunts o' birk I'
the hillside lirk,* There's nocht i' the warld for man to see. ..."
2. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"At ilka corner tables stood, To sit at, talk, an' fuddle, An' N'ed now scrunts
an interlude, ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"scrunts, the stumps of cabbage stalks. See RUNT, 2. SCRUNTY, poor, bare, barren,
poverty-stricken ; small, meai contemptible. Applied to persons, it means ..."
4. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1886)
"Tired wi' the day's toils, I just tak' my freen' doon, Then screw him a' ticht,
an' when finely in tune, Twa scrunts o'er the strings make my troubles a' ..."
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