strunt

plural strunts

1. ScotlanduncountableSpirituous liquor; alcoholic drink.

   Syne, wi' a social glass o' strunt, / They parted aff careerin / Fu' blythe that night.

   1785, Robert Burns, Halloween

2. ScotlandcountableA drink of spirits; a dram.
3. UKcountabledialectalA sulky fit; sullenness.

   Wow, man, that's unco sad! --Is that ye'r jo Has ta'en the strunt!

   1720, Allan Ramsay, Poems, page 161

present singular third person strunts · participle present strunting · participle past strunted · past strunted

1. To walk boldly.

   Your impudence protects you sairly, I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze and lace.

   1900, Robert Burns, “To A Louse, On Seeing One On a Lady's Bonnet At Church”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 52

   2 more examples

   "Upo' the hill" the callan cries, "She cock'd her gaucy runt; An' to Strathfallan green Burn-brae, Fu' nimbly she did strunt.

   1789, David Davidson, Thoughts on the Seasons, &c., page 50

   High were their hopes for food and cash, And drink to keep them strunting, Which cures the yisk and waterbrash, And sets the pipe a lunting

   1876, “The Big Man's Burial”, in The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 266

plural strunts

1. UKdialectalA tail or rump

   S a pretty little dog! 's a pretty little doggy! — ay! — yes! — he is, yes! — Wag thy strunt, then! Wag thy strunt, Rexie!

   1961, D.H. Lawrence, “Adolf”, in Edward David McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, page 16

   2 more examples

   The Brain is acknowledged by all, to be the Fountain, from whence Sinews have their rise; particularly, there is derived thence one great Tendon, which passeth through the cavity of Neck and Back-bone, extending it self to the nethermost joint of the Strunt.

   1673, Robert Almond, The English Horsman and Complete Farrier, page 46

   A tanner's dog invited another dog of his intimate acquaintance to an entertainment, but the latter dog not being satisfied with his feast, as he came away feloniously stole away the strunt of a tail , and the tanner's dog soon after hearing of the felony, quarrelled with his acquaintance, upon which he lost his life;

   1829, Stephen Glover, The History of the County of Derby, page 613

2. UKdialectalAnything short or contracted