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sprunting

sprunting is the present participle and gerund of sprunt.

Meaning of sprunt

Verb

sprunt (third-person singular simple present sprunts, present participle sprunting, simple past and past participle sprunted)

  1. (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
  2. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive) To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks.
    • To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way.1823, Kennedy, James, Poems and Songs
    1. (Scotland, archaic, intransitive) To seek to gain the affections of a person.

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Phrases with sprunting

Questions about sprunting

What is sprunting the present participle and gerund of?
Sprunting is the present participle and gerund of sprunt.

Words near sprunting in the dictionary

  1. sprunny
  2. sprunt
  3. sprunt up
  4. sprunted
  5. sprunted up
  6. sprunting
  7. sprunting up
  8. spruntly
  9. sprunts
  10. sprunts up
  11. spry

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