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crunt

PRONUNCIATION:

(krunt)

MEANING:

noun: A blow on the head with a club.

ETYMOLOGY:

Perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1786.

USAGE:

“A real crunt would finish the likes of him, and I am not one for killing.”
William Edward Wilson; Every Man Is My Father; Saturday Review Press; 1973.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. -Dorothy Parker, author (22 Aug 1893-1967)

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