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scrunting

scrunting is the present participle and gerund of scrunt.

Meaning of scrunt

Verb

scrunt (third-person singular simple present scrunts, present participle scrunting, simple past and past participle scrunted)

  1. To beg or scrounge.
    • On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.1976 February 2, Alister Hughes, “Love Carefully”, in The Virgin Islands Daily News

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Questions about scrunting

What is scrunting the present participle and gerund of?
Scrunting is the present participle and gerund of scrunt.

Words near scrunting in the dictionary

  1. scrunklies
  2. scrunkliest
  3. scrunkly
  4. scrunt
  5. scrunted
  6. scrunting
  7. scrunts
  8. scrunty
  9. scruple
  10. scruple-shop
  11. scruple-shops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrunting (page history and authors); scrunt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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