strunt

== English == === Etymology 1 === Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”). ==== Noun ==== strunt (countable and uncountable, plural strunts) (Scotland, uncountable) Spirituous liquor; alcoholic drink. (Scotland, countable) A drink of spirits; a dram. (UK, dialect, countable) A sulky fit; sullenness. ===== Derived terms ===== struntish strunty ==== Verb ==== strunt (third-person singular simple present strunts, present participle strunting, simple past and past participle strunted) To walk boldly. === Etymology 2 === Compare Middle High German strunze (“stump”). ==== Noun ==== strunt (plural strunts) (UK, dialectal) A tail or rump (UK, dialectal) Anything short or contracted == Swedish == === Etymology === From Middle Low German strunt, from Old Saxon *strunt, from Proto-West Germanic *strunt. === Noun === strunt n nonsense ==== Usage notes ==== Interchangeable with skit (“shit”) in various expressions, perhaps originating as a euphemism for some of them. Compare skit samma and strunt samma, skita i and strunta i, skitsnack and struntsnack, skitsak and struntsak, etc. ==== Declension ==== === Noun === strunt c (dated) an insignificant person ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “strunt”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “strunt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “strunt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Fula Ordboken