Wow, man, that's unco sad! --Is that ye'r jo Has ta'en the strunt!1720, Allan Ramsay, Poems, page 161:
Derived terms
struntish, strunty
strunt
verb
Etymology Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”).
1
To walk boldly.
"Upo' the hill" the callan cries, "She cock'd her gaucy runt; An' to Strathfallan green Burn-brae, Fu' nimbly she did strunt.1789, David Davidson, Thoughts on the Seasons, &c., page 50:
High were their hopes for food and cash, And drink to keep them strunting, Which cures the yisk and waterbrash, And sets the pipe a lunting1876, “The Big Man's Burial”, in The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 266:
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Your impudence protects you sairly, I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze and lace.1900, Robert Burns, “To A Louse, On Seeing One On a Lady's Bonnet At Church”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 52:
strunt
noun
Etymology Compare Middle High German strunze (“stump”).
The Brain is acknowledged by all, to be the Fountain, from whence Sinews have their rise; particularly, there is derived thence one great Tendon, which passeth through the cavity of Neck and Back-bone, extending it self to the nethermost joint of the Strunt.1673, Robert Almond, The English Horsman and Complete Farrier, page 46:
A tanner's dog invited another dog of his intimate acquaintance to an entertainment, but the latter dog not being satisfied with his feast, as he came away feloniously stole away the strunt of a tail , and the tanner's dog soon after hearing of the felony, quarrelled with his acquaintance, upon which he lost his life;1829, Stephen Glover, The History of the County of Derby, page 613:
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S a pretty little dog! 's a pretty little doggy! — ay! — yes! — he is, yes! — Wag thy strunt, then! Wag thy strunt, Rexie!1961, D.H. Lawrence, “Adolf”, in Edward David McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, page 16: