strunty, a. Sc. and north.
(ˈstrʌntɪ)
[f. strunt a. or n.1 + -y.]
Stunted, short.
| 1756 M. Calderwood in Coltness Coll. ii. (Maitland Club) 169 All the road we had to travell was a dead sandy desart, covered with a poor strunty heather. 1808 Jamieson, Strunty, short, contracted; as a strunty gown. 1897 ‘L. Keith’ My Bonny Lady xviii. 198 For a' he's sic a wee, strunty, little-boukit fella', he's got mair spunk in his pinkie than mony a man in his hail body. |