runt
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
The smallest animal of a litter.
- 2.
(broadly)(by extension) The smallest child in the family.
the runt of the family
- 3.
Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
Đồng nghĩa: dwarf
- 4.
(slang)An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
- 5.
(networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
- 6.
(typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
- 7.
A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
- 8.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
- 9.
A bow.
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The OED classifies this word as "of origin". Some see a connection to runt ox, but the OED considers this to be unlikely. Possibly connected to Icelandic hrotti meaning "brute".