runt
noun /rʌnt/
/rʌnt/
- the smallest, weakest animal of the young that are born from the same mother at the same time
- the runt of the litter
- (informal, disapproving) a rude way of referring to somebody who is small, weak or unimportant
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘old or decayed tree stump’): of unknown origin.