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/spɹʌnt/ · verb
(obsolete, chiefly 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 […].
To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way.
Sprunt, to run among the stacks after the girls at night.
A great ploy for the young swankies tae rin a' athort the country at nicht spluntin.
I’m too forswunke after sprunting all night, I’m getting too old for such mollynogging shenanigans!
“Lang slaunting sprunts,” tall sloping hills or “land-spurs”
As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion...
Ya’ll mannish ti trunn’l yersen t’best hauf o’ t’way, bud efter that ya’ll finnd it a bit sprunt [said to a cyclist]. (You’ll manage to trundle yourself for the better half of the way, but after that, you’ll find it a bit sprunt.)
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Sprunt means (obsolete, chiefly regional) To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump..
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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 […].
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