scrunt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abrupt, high-pitched sound.
    — 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.
  2. A beggar or destitute person.
    — It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.
动词 v.
  1. To beg or scrounge.
    — On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.

词形变化

scrunts plural scrunts plural scrunts present,singular,third-person scrunting participle,present scrunted participle,past scrunted past

词源

Onomatopoetic.
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