Runts vs Runty - What's the difference?
runts | runty |
having the characteristics of a runt
* 1965 , June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, The Times
* 1969 , October 4, Roy Hay, “Peaches and Plums”, The Times
diminutive
As a noun runts
is plural of lang=en.As an adjective runty is
having the characteristics of a runt.runty
English
Adjective
(head)- From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. [...] The little runt was still singed and groggy [...]
- Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, [...]