runty

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English

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Etymology

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From runt +‎ -y.

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runty (comparative runtier, superlative runtiest)

  1. Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted; diminutive.
    • 1965 June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, in The Times:
      From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. [] The little runt was still singed and groggy []
    • 1969 October 4, Roy Hay, “Peaches and Plums”, in The Times:
      Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, []
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 23:
      Nopcsa’s dinosaurs were not only runty, but primitive as well.

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