Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An undersized animal, especially the smallest animal of a litter.
- n. Offensive A short person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young ox or cow; a steer or heifer; also, a stunted ox or cow, or other under-sized animal; one below the usual size and strength of its kind; especially, the smallest or weakest one of a litter of pigs or puppies. Compare def. 4.
- n. Hence A short, stockish person; a dwarf.
- n. A rude, ill-bred person; a boor or hoiden.
- n. A breed of domestic pigeons. A single bird may weigh as much as 2 1/2 pounds.
- n. A stump of underwood; also, the dead stump of a tree.
- n. The stalk or stem of a plant.
- n. The rump.
Wiktionary
- n. The smallest animal of a litter.
- n. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
- n. computing An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
- n. typography A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
- n. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
- n. obsolete, UK, dialect A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
- n. (Zoöl.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
- n. A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
- n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disparaging terms for small people
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: dbadass, dr runt is feeling guilty. the white flag of surrender at 460”
“Insidious Prophet says: dr. runt is now playing the role of alfred.”
“Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: dr runt is a proven liar. the republicans may not get a president elected for a generation now.”
“Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: dr runt is just sound. like wind.”
“We'd named Baby A-- the one the doctor had called the "runt" -- Cameron; Baby B was Matthew.”
“Franny, Zooey, and Boo Boo* and then Kent -- insisting that he would feel more invested in these chicks if he could name one -- named the runt, Scrambly.”
“Dwarfs may have normal bodies but with either short legs or arms, or both; a runt is a small specimen in a litter or drove; pygmies were a mythical creation of the”
“Who'd have thought that the runt was the smartest of the family?”
“The runt is a bird of great size, with long massive beak and large feet; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails.”
I. Variation under Domestication. Breeds of the Domestic Pigeon, Their Differences and Origin
“The rest of the boys are all growin ',' cept this little runt, which is”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘runt’.
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metaphoric references to dogs
As an ongoing part of my project, Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated, (www.metaphordogs.org) I am continually adding terms. If you know a term that fi...
dog, alpha male, at bay, bark, bird dog, bitch, bitchin, bloodhound, bulldog, canaille, canines, cerberus and 131 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, awe, buffoon, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron and 96 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Origin unknown
bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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Vocab #12
Mrs. Wilson's Class 2012
euphemism, mundane, incongruous, condolence, stipulate, douse, runt, behoove, verbose, garbled
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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2011 July
New words
correspondent, promulgate, transgress, trite, ravine, corespondent, contrivance, contrive, expedient, conducive, clairvoyance, difform and 184 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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my dictionary
palatial, immaculate, sleep-deprived, Kleptocracy, customs brokerage, parochial, stagnation, egregious, rife, interdict, unassuming, extortion and 81 more...
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Penguins and Pigeons
chinstrap, gentoo, emperor, rockhopper, carmelites, turbit, pouter, jacobin, barb, nun, archangel, scandaroon and 14 more...
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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Quilp's Words
ankh, bung, zest, yawl, xeno, wart, vile, urge, tart, shag, runt, quim and 16 more...
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The Satanic Verses
A list containing unknown words from the novel!
ell, usurer, shrewd, tortuous, brazier, burnished, myrrh, gait, lilt, spurt, navel, wane and 69 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for runt.

amacleod03 figuratively, A short-statured person.
Jul 26, 2009
yarb I love wordie because I see a word like this and I realise what a stunning word it is. May 16, 2009
bilby Pigs, WeirdNet, pigs! May 16, 2009
reesetee Old nickname for wrens. See Jenny wren. Feb 13, 2008