STRUNTYADJ.
1. short, stumpy, dwarfish, stunted ...1756 Scot. & N. Eng. dial. 2. short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy ...1825 Scot. & Eng. dial. 3. misty, foggy ...1879 Scot.& Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY (adj. 1) from strunt (n.) anything cut short or stunted (Eng. dial.) (adj. 2) from strunt (n.) a fit of ill humour or sulkiness (Eng. dial.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1756 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...and all the road we had to travell was a dead, sandy desert, covered with a poor strunty heather and a good deall of oak wood." From: Mrs. Calderwood's Journey By: Margaret Calderwood, 1756 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 • A Glossary of North Country Words, John Trotter Brockett, 1825 • Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1867
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