Sprunt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /spɹʌnt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sprunt is a verb meaning A steep road, hill, or incline.
Meaning
A steep road, hill, or incline.
More Meanings
- Steep or sharp in ascent.
- (Scotland, intransitive, now rare) To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks.
- (obsolete, chiefly regional) To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump.
- (obsolete) A sudden movement; a leap or jump.
- (obsolete) Something bouncy or perky.
- (obsolete) Active; lively; vigorous.
Example Sentences
Sprunt, to run among the stacks after the girls at night.
To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way.
“Lang slaunting sprunts,” tall sloping hills or “land-spurs”
As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion.
Word Forms
- sprunts
- sprunting
- sprunted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sprent, spunk, spang, upsprout, sprug, spurt.
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