1. short, stumpy, dwarfish, stunted ...1756 Scot. & N. Eng. dial.
2. short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy ...1825 Scot. & Eng. dial.
3. misty, foggy ...1879 Scot.& Eng. dial.
(adj. 1) from strunt (n.) anything cut short or stunted (Eng. dial.)
(adj. 2) from strunt (n.) a fit of ill humour or sulkiness (Eng. dial.)
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1756 - see EXAMPLE below
"...and all the road we had to travell was a dead, sandy desert, covered
with a poor strunty heather and a good deall of oak wood."
From: Mrs. Calderwood's Journey
By: Margaret Calderwood, 1756
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The English Dialect Dictionary,
Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• A Glossary of North Country Words,
John Trotter Brockett, 1825
• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language,
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1867