Meaning of scrunt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An abrupt, high-pitched sound.
2. A beggar or destitute person.

Examples

“Just as they were in the roughest part of the mountains, there was a wild shriek of the whistle, a sudden scrunt of the air-brakes, and the train, with an abruptness that was just short of an accident, stopped.”

“But Jess would not budge, and all of a sudden I sees a white flash in the dark, and hears a rattle of harness, and a scrunt in the shafts as Jess shook her head clear of the blow.”

“They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood.”

“It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.”

“And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?”

“Not slum-dweller socialist but high-class fanny socialist. [...] Socialism that drinks wine - a single bottle costs a year's pay to a fuckin scrunt like Uxbridge.”

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