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Sprunted vs Scrunted - What's the difference?

sprunted | scrunted |

As verbs the difference between sprunted and scrunted

is that sprunted is past tense of sprunt while scrunted is past tense of scrunt.

sprunted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sprunt)

    • sprunt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spring up; to germinate.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) any short, stiff object.
  • * 1662 , , Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 35:
    • "As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain'' which they call the ''Conarion ..."
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A leap; a spring.
  • A steep ascent in a road.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Active; lively; vigorous.
    • (Kersey)

    scrunted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scrunt)

    • 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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