Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1786-1852, 1917-1930
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CRUNT, n., v. and adv.
1. n. “A blow on the head with a cudgel” (Sc. 1808 Jam.), or from a fall.Sc. 1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick I. xi.:
Though I had got a fell crunt ahint the haffit, I wan up wi' a warsle.Ayr. 1786 Burns Ep. to W. Simpson xxv.:
An' monie a fallow gat his licks, Wi' hearty crunt.Ayr.4 1928:
He fell an' got a crunt on the croon.
2. v. To hit, to strike (on the head).Abd. 1923 B. R. M'Intosh Scent o' the Broom 9:
We'll crunt the croon o' the foreign loon Wha daurs whummle him aff his throne.Edb. 1917 T. W. Paterson Wyse-Sayin's xiv. 67:
The mooths o' fules crooslie cairry a stick That'll syne crunt their ain croons.Ayr. 1852 M. Lochhead Poems 47:
Wi' their hard sticks your croons to crunt.
3. Used adv. in phr. to gae crunt, to go with a thud.Gall. 1930 (per Wgt.3):
Ye wad ha'e been frichtit too, if ye had heard his heid gaun crunt again' the wa'.
