runty
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
runty (comparative runtier, superlative runtiest)
- Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted; diminutive.
- 1965 June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, in The Times:
- 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 […]
- 1969 October 4, Roy Hay, “Peaches and Plums”, in The Times:
- Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, […]
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 23:
- Nopcsa’s dinosaurs were not only runty, but primitive as well.
Translations edit
having the characteristics of a runt
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diminutive
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