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▪ I. prut, int. and n.|prʌt|
Also 4 tprut, 8 prute.
[Echoic, repr. a slight explosive sound, as of breaking wind.]
1. An exclamation of contempt.
c1300in Langtoft Chron. (MS. Fairfax 22, lf. 4), Tprut! Skot riveling, In unsel timing crope thu out of cage. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3014 And seyþ ‘prut for þy cursyng, prest!’ a1779D. Graham Janet Clinker's Orat. Writ. 1883 II. 150 If they had tell'd me tuts, or prute no, I laid them o'er my knee, and a com'd crack for crack o'er their hurdies. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. viii. 282 From pr, or prut, indicating contempt.
2. The sound of a rifle shot.
1898Blackw. Mag. Dec. 837/2 To the prut of the magazine rifles was added the under chorus of the clicking mechanism. 1899Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 2/1 Time passed; the fight, short anyhow, dwindled to prut..prut..prut-prut..prut.
▪ II. prut, prute
obs. forms of proud. |