Sc. and north. [Cf. STRUM sb.4, STUNT sb.1 3.] A fit of ill-humor or sulks; esp. in phr. to take the strunt.
1721. Ramsay, Richy & Sandy, 8. Wow man, that’s unco’ sad,—Is’t that ye’r jo Has ta’en the strunt?
1776. C. Keith, Farmer’s Ha’, lv. Take tent, and nae wi’ strunts offend.
1776. Herd’s Scott. Songs (ed. 2), II. 222. Fare ye weel, my auld wife, The steerer up o’ strunt and strife.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., V. 287. The Marquess took the strunt, and would neither ratify some further engagement which he had come under, nor stand to those he had subscribed on oath.
1894. Northumbld. Gloss., Strunt, a pique, pet. ‘He’s teyun the strunts.’
1895. P. H. Hunter, James Inwick, iii. 31. The laird took the strunt on the heid o’t, an’ gied ower comin to the kirk.
