runt

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English

Etymology

The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED considers this to be unlikely.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌnt/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

runt (plural runts)

  1. The smallest animal of a litter.
    • 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 168:
      Sometimes, as we have seen, one member of a litter is a runt, much smaller than the rest. He is unable to fight for food as strongly as the rest, and runts often die. We have considered the conditions under which it would actually pay a mother to let a runt die.
  2. (by extension) The smallest child in the family.
    the runt of the family
  3. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
    Synonym: dwarf
  4. (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
  5. (networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  6. (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
    Hypernym: widow
  7. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  8. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
  9. A bow.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “runt”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

runt

  1. inflection of runnen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Anagrams

Faroese

Adjective

runt

  1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of rundur

Adverb

runt

  1. around

Old French

Adjective

runt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular runde)

  1. Alternative form of reont

Declension

Declension of runt
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject runz, runs, runts runde runt
Oblique runt runde runt
Plural Subject runt rundes runt
Oblique runz, runs, runts rundes runt

Plautdietsch

Adjective

runt

  1. round, circular, spherical

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

runt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of rund

Adverb

runt

  1. around; aimlessly (about movement)
    gå runt
    walk around
  2. around; at random locations
  3. around; in a manner that involves a lot of transportation

See also

Preposition

runt

  1. around; denoting a full circle
  2. around; following a path which curves near an object
  3. around (a corner)
  4. around, near (about time)
    Jag kommer runt tre.
    I'll come around three o'clock.
  5. about; all round

Synonyms

Derived terms

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English rent, i-rent, past participle of renden (“to tear”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾʊnt/, /iːˈɾʊnt/, /iːˈɾɛnt/

Verb

runt

  1. torn

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 65
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