scrunt means an abrupt, high-pitched sound. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
scrunt is pronounced /skɹʌnt/.
noun
- An abrupt, high-pitched sound.“Just as they were in the roughest part of the mountains, there was a wild shriek of the whistle, a sudden scrunt of the air-brakes, and the train, with an abruptness that was just short of an accident, stopped.”
- A beggar or destitute person.“It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.”
verb
- To beg or scrounge.“On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.”