Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrunty
Literary usage of Scrunty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"scrunty, Short and thick. " A lile scrunty fellow." 2. Stunted timber. SCRY, To
descry, to detect. SCUFFLE, To scramble. ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"scrunty, poor, bare, barren, poverty-stricken ; small, meai contemptible. ...
Mushrooms, at Bellingham, were found on a scrunty, heathery br of land, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... Wha, on his native scrunty thorn, 'Mang birds o' song bude hail the morn. A.
Scott'i Poem», 1811, p. 69. 3. Meagre ; applied to a raw-boned person, ..."
4. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Stunted in growth, meagre, La- narks ; evidently the same with scrunty, ...
Wha, on his native scrunty thorn, 'Mang birds o' song bude ..."
5. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Stunted in growth ; meagre, Lan- arks. ; evidently the same with scrunty, q. т.
... scrunty ..."
6. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"scrunty, Short and thick. " A lile scrunty fellow." 2. Stunted timber. SCRY, To
descry, to detect. SCUFFLE, To scramble. ..."
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