LekhoriLekhoriTo make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump.
They acted a Tragedy at Padua when I was there last June 1786 I think: the Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions […].
To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks.
To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way.
A sudden movement; a leap or jump.
Something bouncy or perky.
A steep road, hill, or incline.
“Lang slaunting sprunts,” tall sloping hills or “land-spurs”
Active; lively; vigorous.
As for that little sprunt piece of the Brain which they call the Conarion...
Steep or sharp in ascent.
Ya’ll mannish ti trunn’l yersen t’best hauf o’ t’way, bud efter that ya’ll finnd it a bit sprunt [said to a cyclist]. (You’ll manage to trundle yourself for the better half of the way, but after that, you’ll find it a bit sprunt.)
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
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