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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