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runt

/ruhnt/US // rʌnt //UK // (rʌnt) //

矬子,矬子里拔将军,奔跑,跑步

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
    • : the smallest or weakest of a litter, especially of piglets or puppies.
    • : a person who is petty and contemptible: That runt causes most of the trouble at the meetings.
    • : British Dialect. an old or decayed tree stump.an old cow or ox.an ugly old woman; hag.

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Examples

  • And by military standards and compared with everyone who was around there—he was a runt.

  • "Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

  • Never since I was a little runt—did I—never cried in thirty years—and here I am-leaking like a pail!

  • "The darned little greasy-faced runt," he mumbled rebelliously, and immediately felt the better for it.

  • She had betrayed such a liking for him that the miserable runt of a Little Willie had been jealous.

  • That troop has a miserable runt of a fice, and he's smart the same as such pups often are.