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sprunt en · ADJ
Pronunciation
/spɹʌnt/
/spɹʊnt/ (Northern-England)
Etymology
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
Meanings
(obsolete) Active; lively; vigorous.
As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion... 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 35
Steep or sharp in ascent.
Ya’ll mannish ti trunn’l yersen t’best hauf o’ t’way, bud efter that ya’ll finnd it a bit sprunt [said to a cyclist]. (You’ll manage to trundle yourself for the better half of the way, but after that, you’ll find it a bit sprunt.) 1896, Wright, Joseph, The English Dialect Dictionary: R-S, page 695:
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
Meanings
(obsolete) A sudden movement; a leap or jump.
(obsolete) Something bouncy or perky.
A steep road, hill, or incline.
“Lang slaunting sprunts,” tall sloping hills or “land-spurs” 1788, Marshall, Rural Economy of Yorkshire, page 695:
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sprunts
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splunt
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sprunt en · VERB
Pronunciation
/spɹʌnt/
/spɹʊnt/ (Northern-England)
Etymology
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
Meanings
(obsolete, regional) To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump.
They acted a Tragedy at Padua when I was there last June 1786 I think: the Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions […]. 1786 August 16, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
(Scotland, archaic, intransitive) To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks.
A great ploy for the young swankies tae rin a' athort the country at nicht spluntin. 1901, Trotter, R. De B., Galloway Gossip:
Sprunt, to run among the stacks after the girls at night. 1825, Jamieson, J., Etymological Dictionary of Scottish Language Suppl.:
I’m too forswunke after sprunting all night, I’m getting too old for such mollynogging shenanigans! 2016 July 31, Grandiloquent Word of the Day:
To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way. 1823, Kennedy, James, Poems and Songs:
(Scotland, archaic, intransitive) To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks. ▸ To seek to gain the affections of a person.