different between destitute vs scrunt

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?st?tju?t/
• (yod coalescence) IPA^(key): /?d?st?t?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?st?tu?t/
• Hyphenation: des?ti?tute

Etymology 1

From Middle English destitute, destitut, from Latin d?stit?tus.

Adjective

destitute (comparative more destitute, superlative most destitute)

1. (followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid
   • 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie Chapter 9

     Now, though this region may scarcely be said to be wedded to science, being to all intents a virgin territory as respects the enquirer into natural history, still it is greatly destitute of the treasures of the vegetable kingdom.

   • 1611 King James Bible, Psalms 141:8

     In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

2. lacking money; poor, impoverished
   • May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag

     In 1907 he moved from St. Louis to New York City, arriving as a famous composer. But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.

   • 1918, Henry Leyford Gates translating Aurora Mardiganian, Ravished Armenia

     according to the most careful estimates, 3,950,000 destitute peoples, mostly women and children who had been driven many of them as far as one thousand miles from home, turn their pitiful faces toward America for help in the reconstructive period in which we are now living.

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 45

     ‘Do you know how pinched and destitute I am?’ she retorted. ‘I do not think you do, or can. If you had eyes, and could look around you on this poor place, you would have pity on me. […] ’

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English destituten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

destitute (third-person singular simple present destitutes, present participle destituting, simple past and past participle destituted)

1. (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

Translations

Latin

Adjective

d?stit?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?stit?tus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??nt/

Etymology 1

• Onomatopoetic

Noun

scrunt (plural scrunts)

1. An abrupt, high-pitched sound.
   • 1894, Robert Barr, "Held Up," McClure's Magazine, 1893-1894 Dec-May, p. 309:

     Just as they were in the roughest part of the mountains, there was a wild shriek of the whistle, a sudden scrunt of the air-brakes, and the train, with an abruptness that was just short of an accident, stopped.

   • 1901, David S. Meldrum, "The Conquest of Charlotte," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v.171, 1902 Jan-Jun, pg. 128:

     But Jess would not budge, and all of a sudden I sees a white flash in the dark, and hears a rattle of harness, and a scrunt in the shafts as Jess shook her head clear of the blow.

   • 2004, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, Kessinger Publishing, ?ISBN, pg. 243:

     They rose, and the scrunt of Janet's chair on the floor, when she pushed it behind her, sent a thrilling shiver through her body, so tense was her mood.

Etymology 2

Noun

scrunt (plural scrunts)

1. A beggar or destitute person.
   • 1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, publ. Constable, pg. 29:

     It's a fine, ennobling thing, is poverty. It would make me a brutal scrunt, and you a whinging harridan in three years.

   • 1987, David Rabe, Hurlyburly: A Play, publ. Samuel French, Inc., ?ISBN, pg. 112:

     And without my work what am I but an unemployed scrunt on the meat market of the streets?

   • 2005, Ronan O'Donnell, The Doll Tower, ?ISBN, pg. 20:

     Not slum-dweller socialist but high-class fanny socialist. [...] Socialism that drinks wine - a single bottle costs a year's pay to a fuckin scrunt like Uxbridge.

Verb

scrunt (third-person singular simple present scrunts, present participle scrunting, simple past and past participle scrunted)

1. To beg or scrounge.
   • 1976, Alister Hughes, "Love Carefully," The Virgin Islands Daily News, Feb 2, 1976:

     On the other hand in countries where people scrunt to live, the birth rate is high.

   • 1979, Maurice Bishop, Selected Speeches, 1979-1981, Casa de las Américas, pg. 11:

     Four out of every five women are forced to stay at home or scrunt for a meagre existence.

   • 1996, Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s, publ. P. Lang, 1999, ?ISBN, pg. 69:

     As a woman of color living in the north of Metropole, anything that I did dig up I really had to scrunt for.