runt.
The smallest animal of a litter.
Meaning & usage
The smallest animal of a litter.
The smallest child in the family.
the runt of the family
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
A bow.
Where this word comes from
The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED considers this to be unlikely. Possibly connected to Icelandic hrotti meaning "brute".
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.