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third-person singular simple present sprunts, present participle sprunting, simple past and past participle sprunted
(obsolete, chiefly regional) To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump. quotations
They acted a Tragedy at Padua when I was there last June 1786 I think: the Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions […] .
1786 August 16, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana
(Scotland, now rare) To make romantic advances to; to flirt.
plural sprunts
(obsolete) A sudden movement; a leap or jump.
(obsolete) Something bouncy or perky.
comparative more sprunt, superlative most sprunt
(obsolete) Active; lively; vigorous. quotations
"As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion..."
1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 35