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noun
Spirituous liquor; alcoholic drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, uncountable
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noun
A drink of spirits; a dram.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable
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noun
A sulky fit; sullenness.
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Usage: UK, countable, dialectal
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noun
A tail or rump
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
Anything short or contracted
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
To walk boldly.
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History
Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”).
Compare Middle High German strunze (“stump”).
