Runt vs Dunt - What's the difference?
runt | dunt |
The smallest animal of a litter, or,
The smallest child in the family, as in "the runt of the family."
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
(computing) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
As nouns the difference between runt and dunt
is that runt is the smallest animal of a litter, or while dunt is a stroke; a dull-sounding blow.As a verb dunt is
to strike; give a blow to; knock.As a contraction dunt is
eye dialect of don’t|lang=en.runt
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.