a. Sc. and north. [f. STRUNT a. or sb.1 + -Y.] Stunted, short.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Coll., II. (Maitland Club), 169. All the road we had to travell was a dead sandy desart, covered with a poor strunty heather.
1808. Jamieson, Strunty, short, contracted; as a strunty gown.
1897. ‘L. Keith,’ My Bonny 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.
