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ˈruntish, a.
[f. runt n. + -ish.]
1. Of animals: Stunted; dwarfish. Also, of human beings.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 5 These usually that fall to grasse over soone, proove short runtish sheepe. 1738Briton Described 60 The Cattle, we saw most legible on their Mountains, were Goats and Heifers, a runtish Sort of Animals. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1124 This same kind of runtish coarse breed continues all the way to the Frith of Forth. 1969N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) x. 89 He grew up small, runtish, with bad hair and unhealthy skin. 1974‘R. Tate’ Birds of Bloodied Feather ii. 30 The child..was about thirteen, runtish and not very clean.
†2. Like a runt (pigeon).
1765Treat. Dom. Pigeons 137 It is of a runtish make, and has a gravel eye.
Hence † ˈruntishly adv. Obs.
1735J. Moore Columb. 45 The Trumpeter is a bird much about the size of a Laugher, and very runtishly made. |