"runty" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "runt + -y",
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      "form": "runtier",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "runtiest",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1965 June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, in The Times",
          "text": "From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. […] The little runt was still singed and groggy […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1969 October 4, Roy Hay, “Peaches and Plums”, in The Times",
          "text": "Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, […]",
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          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 23",
          "text": "Nopcsa’s dinosaurs were not only runty, but primitive as well.",
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        "Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted; diminutive."
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          "stunted",
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          "diminutive",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having the characteristics of a runt",
          "word": "kitukasvuinen"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having the characteristics of a runt",
          "word": "kitulias"
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          "sense": "diminutive",
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  "word": "runty"
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      "form": "runtier",
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    },
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      "form": "runtiest",
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          "ref": "1965 June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, in The Times",
          "text": "From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. […] The little runt was still singed and groggy […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Nopcsa’s dinosaurs were not only runty, but primitive as well.",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having the characteristics of a runt",
      "word": "kitukasvuinen"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having the characteristics of a runt",
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