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/ˈd͡ʒʌnt/ · noun
(Scotland, obsolete) 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,[…]
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.
She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel.
"Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.
A fine bowl of tea and a junt of flour bread.
Pass that junt, pass that junt nigga
[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.
Use junt. when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Junt. means (Scotland, obsolete) A fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Whare ancient poets us'd to dine / On junts o' rhymin skill; / Ye might to latest ages shine, An' countless pages fill,[…]
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