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Meanings of runt in English

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Disparaging terms for small people.

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Usage of runt in English
1
For example, the canoe birch at its northern limit is a runt.
The School Book of Forestry
2
That little runt of a Martin Landis was hanging round her, too.
Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
3
It isn't much compared to an angel, even one that's a runt.
Angelfall
4
They were surrounded by the wrenched shapes of runt banyans and cow-parsley.
Perdido Street Station
5
Richard, the youngest of all, is the dark-haired runt of the litter.
The White Queen
6
She ain't scared of no sawed-off, hammered-down runt like Texas, No, siree!
Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
7
Improbably, the runt had survived, but it was not long for this world.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
8
He is a runt and a pig, and I am tired of him.
White Shadows in the South Seas
9
So she just picked on a red-headed runt of an Irishman.
The Sheriff's Son
10
Your shit-fed runt escaped through your incompetence, and liberated its siblings.
Perdido Street Station
11
Well, I never heard any harm of that poor little runt.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
12
We've just flushed out that runt Melitus-heget anything off you?
The Silver Pigs
13
That's a day's wage for the strongest dockworkers, not some runt.
Thief of lives
14
No one-armed, hammered-down little runt can bluff me for a second.
A Man Four-Square
15
He has no intention of being under the thumb of this little runt.
The blood spilt
16
It's like he's a harmless little runt fighting for the teat.
Something wicked
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Runt through the time
Runt across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common