"strunt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: strunts [plural]
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”). Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=obscure}} obscure, {{cog|sco|strunt|t=spirits, whisky, toddy}} Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} strunt (countable and uncountable, plural strunts)
  1. (Scotland, uncountable) Spirituous liquor; alcoholic drink. Tags: Scotland, uncountable
    Sense id: en-strunt-en-noun-8jZTMnZh Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 22 10 11 11 26
  2. (Scotland, countable) A drink of spirits; a dram. Tags: Scotland, countable
    Sense id: en-strunt-en-noun-wN7i5kcr Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 22 10 11 11 26
  3. (UK, dialect, countable) A sulky fit; sullenness. Tags: UK, countable, dialectal
    Sense id: en-strunt-en-noun-Db2pOHrb Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 22 10 11 11 26
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: struntish, strunty
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: strunts [plural]
Etymology: Compare Middle High German strunze (“stump”). Etymology templates: {{cog|gmh|strunze|t=stump}} Middle High German strunze (“stump”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} strunt (plural strunts)
  1. (UK, dialectal) A tail or rump Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-strunt-en-noun-uZ38z0lD Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 22 10 11 11 26
  2. (UK, dialectal) Anything short or contracted Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-strunt-en-noun-eCztQ7Ci Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 22 10 11 11 26
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: strunts [present, singular, third-person], strunting [participle, present], strunted [participle, past], strunted [past]
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”). Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=obscure}} obscure, {{cog|sco|strunt|t=spirits, whisky, toddy}} Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} strunt (third-person singular simple present strunts, present participle strunting, simple past and past participle strunted)
  1. To walk boldly.
    Sense id: en-strunt-en-verb-S~VUB4zH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 22 10 11 11 26
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.