sprunt up

English

Verb

sprunt up (third-person singular simple present sprunts up, present participle sprunting up, simple past and past participle sprunted up)

1. (US, dialect, intransitive) To draw oneself up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up.

Quotations

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References

• “sprunt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.