sprunt

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden movement; a leap or jump. obsolete
  2. Something bouncy or perky. obsolete
  3. A steep road, hill, or incline.
    — “Lang slaunting sprunts,” tall sloping hills or “land-spurs”
动词 v.
  1. To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump. obsolete,regional
    — 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 […].
  2. To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks. Scotland,archaic,intransitive
    — To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way.
  3. To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks.; To seek to gain the affections of a person. Scotland,archaic,intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Active; lively; vigorous. obsolete
    — As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion...
  2. Steep or sharp in ascent.
    — 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.)

词形变化

sprunts present,singular,third-person sprunting participle,present sprunted participle,past sprunted past splunt alternative sprunts plural splunt alternative more sprunt comparative most sprunt superlative splunt alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
sprunt up spruntly

词源

词源 1
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
词源 2
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
词源 3
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
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