Beggar vs Scrunt - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between beggar and scrunt

is that beggar is while scrunt is a an abrupt, high-pitched sound or scrunt can be a beggar or destitute person.

As a verb scrunt is

to beg or scrounge.

beggar

English

(wikipedia beggar)

Noun

(en noun)

A person who begs.

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* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:

Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .

A person suffering from extreme poverty.

* 1883 , :

I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

Synonyms

* (who begs) mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant * (extremely poor person) palliard, pauper, vagabond

Derived terms

* beggarly * beggarliness * beggar's-lice * beggar-tick * beggarweed * beggary * beggars can't be choosers

Verb

(en verb)

To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

Synonyms

* ruin

Derived terms

* beggar-my-neighbor * beggar thy neighbor * beggar belief * beggar description

Anagrams

* English agent nouns

scrunt

English

Etymology 1

* Onomatopoetic

Noun

(en noun)

A an abrupt, high-pitched sound.

* 1894 , Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine , 1893-1894 Dec-May, 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.

* 1901 , David S. Meldrum, "The Conquest of Charlotte," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , v.171, 1902 Jan-Jun, 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.

* 2004 , George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters , Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 9781419166860, 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)

A beggar or destitute person.

* 1938 , James Bridie, The Last Trump , publ. Constable, pg. 29:

It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt , and you a whinging harridan in three years.

* 1987 , David Rabe, Hurlyburly: A Play , publ. Samuel French, Inc., ISBN 9780573619816, pg. 112:

And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?

* 2005 , Ronan O'Donnell, The Doll Tower , ISBN 9781854598912, 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)

To beg or scrounge.

* 1976 , Alister Hughes, "Love Carefully," The Virgin Islands Daily News , Feb 2, 1976:

On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.

* 1979 , Maurice Bishop, Selected Speeches, 1979-1981 , Casa de las Américas, pg. 11:

Four out of every five women are forced to stay at home or scrunt for a meagre existence.

* 1996 , Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s , publ. P. Lang, 1999, ISBN 9780820442617, pg. 69:

As a woman of color living in the north of Metropole, anything that I did dig up I really had to scrunt for.

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