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strunts

strunts is the plural of strunt.

strunts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of strunt.

Meaning of strunt

Noun (1)

strunt (countable and uncountable, plural strunts)

  1. (Scotland, uncountable) Spirituous liquor; alcoholic drink.
    • Syne, wi' a social glass o' strunt, / They parted aff careerin / Fu' blythe that night.1785, Robert Burns, Halloween
  2. (Scotland, countable) A drink of spirits; a dram.
  3. (UK, countable, dialectal) A sulky fit; sullenness.
    • Wow, man, that's unco sad! --Is that ye'r jo Has ta'en the strunt!1720, Allan Ramsay, Poems, page 161

Noun (2)

strunt (plural strunts)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A tail or rump
    • The Brain is acknowledged by all, to be the Fountain, from whence Sinews have their rise; particularly, there is derived thence one great Tendon, which passeth through the cavity of Neck and Back-bone, extending it self to the nethermost joint of the Strunt.1673, Robert Almond, The English Horsman and Complete Farrier, page 46
  2. (UK, dialectal) Anything short or contracted

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Questions about strunts

What is strunts the plural of?
Strunts is the plural of strunt.

Words near strunts in the dictionary

  1. Strunks
  2. strunt
  3. strunted
  4. strunting
  5. struntish
  6. strunts
  7. strunty
  8. strunzite
  9. Strupp
  10. Strupps
  11. struse

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