Meaning of junt | Babel Free
/ˈd͡ʒʌnt/Definitions
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A fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food). Scotland, obsolete
- Thing, item.
Examples
“Whare ancient poets us'd to dine / On junts o' rhymin skill; / Ye might to latest ages shine, An' countless pages fill,[…]”
“When they were partin with Lady Killdun, she called Ned Burke aside, an (as Donald said) gave him a junt of butter betwixt two fardles of bread, which Ned put into a wallet they had for carrying some little baggage.”
“She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel.”
“"Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.”
“A fine bowl of tea and a junt of flour bread.”
“Pass that junt, pass that junt nigga”
“[The play Hurt Village. Page 261:] These junts is heavy. […] [Page 326:] 'cause he never stop believin' that one day thar junt was gone be blowed off.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.