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scrunts

scrunts is the plural of scrunt.

scrunts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrunt.

Meaning of scrunt

Noun (1)

scrunt (plural scrunts)

  1. An abrupt, high-pitched sound.
    • 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.1894, Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine, 1893-1894 Dec-May, p. 309

Noun (2)

scrunt (plural scrunts)

  1. A beggar or destitute person.
    • It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, Constable, page 29

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Questions about scrunts

What is scrunts the plural of?
Scrunts is the plural of scrunt.

Words near scrunts in the dictionary

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

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