sprunt
/spɹʌnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks.
Archaic; Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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 […]."
- "To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way."
- "Sprunt, to run among the stacks after the girls at night."
- "A great ploy for the young swankies tae rin a' athort the country at nicht spluntin."
- "I’m too forswunke after sprunting all night, I’m getting too old for such mollynogging shenanigans!"
- "“Lang slaunting sprunts,” tall sloping hills or “land-spurs”"
Etymology
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
Usage
Inflected Forms
sprunts (present, singular)
sprunting (participle, present)
sprunted (participle, past)
sprunted (past)
splunt (alternative)
sprunts (plural)
more sprunt (comparative)
most sprunt (superlative)