| 释义 |
scrunty, a. orig. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈskrʌntɪ|
[f. scrunt.]
Stunted, shrivelled, stumpy.
1811A. Scott Poems 59 [A bird] wha, on his native scrunty thorn, 'Mang birds o' song bude hail the morn. 1849in C. Brontë Shirley vii. 148 Then whudder awa' thou bitter biting blast, And sough through the scrunty tree. 1868W. Shelley Wayside Flowers 55 He'd been sae scrimpit o' his corn His scrunty banes stood brent in sight. 1947A. McCormick Galloway 219 The scrunty aul' buddy has nae smeff. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 54 A scrunty beggar With one glass eye and one hickory leg. 1963S. Plath Bell Jar i. 10 A short, scrunty fellow detached himself and came into the bar with us. |