Complete Definition of "runty"

English
Adjective
runty

  1. Having the characteristics of a runt.

#*1965, June 17, �Love�and Death�in the African Night�, The Times
#*:From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. [...] The little runt was still singed and groggy [...]
#*1969, October 4, Roy Hay, �Peaches and Plums�, The Times
#*:Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, [...]

  1. diminutive

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