struntyadj.
/ˈstrʌnti/, U.S. /ˈstrənti/, Scottish English /ˈstrʌntɪ/ Scottish and northern.
Stunted, short.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > stunted or underdeveloped
wanthriven1508
scrubby1591
unthriven1680
nithered1691
strunty1756
stinted1759
starved1785
nirled1808
scrunty1811
scrawny1883
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > lack of height > [adjective]
shortc888
lowc1175
base1590
lowly1695
unlofty1729
squat1757
strunty1808
unhigh1811
dwarf1880
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective]
shorta900
littleOE
lowa1398
untallc1535
dwarfish1542
shrimpish1549
pygmy1592
shrubby1603
dapper1606
punya1616
runtisha1642
truss1674
sesquipedalian1741
smally1764
petite1766
elfin1796
scram1825
squibbish1826
gnomic1845
dwarf-like1850
knee-high to a grasshopper1851
underhanded1856
nanoid1857
whipping-snapping1861
scrunty1868
midget1875
short-set1883
sawed-off1887
strunty1897
munchkin1930
sawn-off1936
short-arsed1951
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) v. 131 All the road we had to travell was a dead sandy desart, covered with a poor strunty heather.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Strunty, short, contracted; as a strunty gown.
1897 ‘L. Keith’ My Bonnie Lady xviii. 198 For a' he's sic a wee, strunty, little-boukit fella', he's got mair spunk in his pinkie than mony a man in his hail body.
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adj.1756