Noun: junt
Sample Sentences
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Whare ancient poets us'd to dine / On junts o' rhymin skill; / Ye might to latest ages shine, An' countless pages fill,[…] [1808, Walter Watson (of Chryston.), Miscellaneous Scotch Poetry, page 71:]
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When they were partin with Lady Killdun, she called Ned Burke aside, an (as Donald said) gave him a junt of butter betwixt two fardles of bread, which Ned put into a wallet they had for carrying some little baggage. [1834, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, volume 25, page 138:]
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She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel. [1894, Donald Macleod, Past worthies of the Lennox, a garland of their droll sayings and doings, page 176:]
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"Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said. [1903, Seumas MacManus, A Lad of the O'Friels, page 43:]
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A fine bowl of tea and a junt of flour bread. [1939, P. Gallagher, My Story, page 98:]
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[The play Hurt Village. Page 261:] These junts is heavy. […] [Page 326:] 'cause he never stop believin' that one day thar junt was gone be blowed off. [2013 October 28, Katori Hall, Katori Hall Plays One: Hoodoo Love; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; The Mountaintop; Hurt Village, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 261:]
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Pass that junt, pass that junt nigga! [2000, Three 6 Mafia, "Pass That Junt"]
Nouns inflected like junt
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Apparently a figurative extension of Early Scots junt (“joint”), Middle English joynt, junte (“joint (of the body, where the bones meet)”), perhaps influenced by junk. Compare jawn. See: Middle English Nouns '
joynt'.