junt
/ˈd͡ʒʌnt/
junt noun: a fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food).
Noun
junt (plural junts)
- A fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food).
- Whare ancient poets us'd to dine / On junts o' rhymin skill; / Ye might to latest ages shine, An' countless pages fill,[…]1808, Walter Watson (of Chryston.), Miscellaneous Scotch Poetry, page 71
- When they were partin with Lady Killdun, she called Ned Burke aside, an (as Donald said) gave him a junt of butter betwixt two fardles of bread, which Ned put into a wallet they had for carrying some little baggage.1834, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, volume 25, page 138
- Thing, item.
- [The play Hurt Village. Page 261:] These junts is heavy. […] [Page 326:] 'cause he never stop believin' that one day thar junt was gone be blowed off.2013 October 28, Katori Hall, Katori Hall Plays One: Hoodoo Love; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; The Mountaintop; Hurt Village, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 261
- A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- Pass that junt, pass that junt nigga!2000, Three 6 Mafia, "Pass That Junt"
Examples of junt in a sentence
- She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel.1894, Donald Macleod, Past worthies of the Lennox, a garland of their droll sayings and doings, page 176:
- "Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.1903, Seumas MacManus, A Lad of the O'Friels, page 43:
- A fine bowl of tea and a junt of flour bread.1939, P. Gallagher, My Story, page 98:
Forms of junt
| plural | junts |
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Origin of junt
Apparently a figurative extension of Early Scots junt (“joint”), Middle English joynt, junte (“joint (of the body, where the bones meet)”), perhaps influenced by junk. Compare jawn.
Questions about junt
- What does junt mean?
- Junt means a fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food).
- How do you use junt in a sentence?
- She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel.
- What part of speech is junt?
- Junt is a noun.
- How do you pronounce junt?
- Junt is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌnt/.
- What is the plural of junt?
- The plural of junt is junts.
Words near junt in the dictionary
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