Beg vs Scrunt - What's the difference?
beg | scrunt |
to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
(proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
(legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
* Harrington
A an abrupt, high-pitched sound.
* 1894 , Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine , 1893-1894 Dec-May,
* 1901 , David S. Meldrum, "The Conquest of Charlotte," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , v.171, 1902 Jan-Jun,
* 2004 , George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters , Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 9781419166860,
A beggar or destitute person.
* 1938 , James Bridie, The Last Trump , publ. Constable, pg. 29:
* 1987 , David Rabe, Hurlyburly: A Play , publ. Samuel French, Inc., ISBN 9780573619816,
* 2005 , Ronan O'Donnell, The Doll Tower , ISBN 9781854598912,
To beg or scrounge.
* 1976 , Alister Hughes, "Love Carefully," The Virgin Islands Daily News ,
* 1979 , Maurice Bishop, Selected Speeches, 1979-1981 , Casa de las Américas, pg. 11:
* 1996 , Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s , publ. P. Lang, 1999, ISBN 9780820442617, pg. 69:
As verbs the difference between beg and scrunt
is that beg is to request the help of someone, often in the form of money while scrunt is to beg or scrounge.As nouns the difference between beg and scrunt
is that beg is a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey while scrunt is a an abrupt, high-pitched sound.beg
English
(wikipedia beg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.Verb
(begg)- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
- I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him .
- I do beg your good will in this case.
- [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
- But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeAntonyms
* (raise a question)Derived terms
* beg the question * go begging * beg to differSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Etymology 3
scrunt
English
Etymology 1
* OnomatopoeticNoun
(en noun)p. 309:
- Just as they were in the roughest part of the mountains, there was a wild shriek of the whistle, a sudden scrunt of the air-brakes, and the train, with an abruptness that was just short of an accident, stopped.
pg. 128:
- But Jess would not budge, and all of a sudden I sees a white flash in the dark, and hears a rattle of harness, and a scrunt in the shafts as Jess shook her head clear of the blow.
pg. 243:
- They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt , and you a whinging harridan in three years.
pg. 112:
- And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?
pg. 20:
- Not slum-dweller socialist but high-class fanny socialist. [...] Socialism that drinks wine - a single bottle costs a year's pay to a fuckin scrunt like Uxbridge.
Verb
(en verb)Feb 2, 1976:
- On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.
- Four out of every five women are forced to stay at home or scrunt for a meagre existence.
- As a woman of color living in the north of Metropole, anything that I did dig up I really had to scrunt for.
