sprunt up
English edit
Verb edit
sprunt up (third-person singular simple present sprunts up, present participle sprunting up, simple past and past participle sprunted up)
- (US, dialect, intransitive) To draw oneself up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up.
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:sprunt up.
References edit
- “sprunt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.