runt

Meaning

Noun

• The smallest animal of a litter.
• The smallest child in the family.
• Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
• An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
• An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
• A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
• A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
• A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
• A bow.

Origin

• The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt ("ox"), but the OED considers this to be unlikely.