sprunt up

English

Verb

sprunt up (third-person singular simple present sprunts up, present participle sprunting up, simple past and past participle sprunted up)

(US, dialect, intransitive) To draw oneself up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up.

Quotations

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References

“sprunt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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