runty

English

Etymology

From runt +‎ -y.

Adjective

runty (comparative runtier, superlative runtiest)

1. Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted; diminutive.
   • 1965 June 17, “Love—and Death—in the African Night”, in The Times:

     From the light above us thin shadows flickered and a runty little image of the defiance in front of me fell on to the table. […] The little runt was still singed and groggy […]

   • 1969 October 4, Roy Hay, “Peaches and Plums”, in The Times:

     Only later did I discover that a runty old almond tree, hidden behind a laburnum, riddled with peach leaf curl, […]

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 23:

     Nopcsa’s dinosaurs were not only runty, but primitive as well.

Translations

having the characteristics of a runt

• Finnish: kitukasvuinen (fi), kitulias (fi)

diminutive

• Finnish: pienikokoinen (fi)

Anagrams

• turny