Definitions for runt

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Spelling: [ruhnt]
IPA: /rʌnt/

Runt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in runt (nrtu).

Definitions for runt

noun

  1. an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
  2. the smallest or weakest of a litter, especially of pigs or puppies.
  3. a person who is small and contemptible:
  4. British Dialect. an old or decayed tree stump. an old cow or ox. an ugly old woman; hag.

Origin of runt

1495-1505; perhaps Dutch rund bull, cow, ox; akin to German Rind cattle

Examples for runt

Men with hearts in them; and Rosy, let me tell you, is no runt in that litter.

Who'd have thought that the runt was the smartest of the family?

Finally, the type specimen of munda is a "runt," smaller than any other male seen.

A runt from under the Mormon ditch; we raise bigger on our land.

"It's lucky that runt of a Reynolds held his tongue," he said hotly.

"Two touchdowns and a goal have happened," said runt Woods gloomily.

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

Watch that, runt, or I'll get off and put my foot in your mouth and pull you on like a boot!

And if he objected—as he usually did—they were sure to laugh and call him "runt."

He had been right in his conjecture, Slim was “the runt of something good.”

Word Value for runt
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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