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発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒʌnt/

名詞

junt (plural junts)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food).
   • 1808, Walter Watson (of Chryston.), Miscellaneous Scotch Poetry, page 71:

     Whare ancient poets us'd to dine / On junts o' rhymin skill; / Ye might to latest ages shine, An' countless pages fill, […]

   • 1834, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, volume 25, page 138:

     When they were partin with Lady Killdun, she called Ned Burke aside, an (as Donald said) gave him a junt of butter betwixt two fardles of bread, which Ned put into a wallet they had for carrying some little baggage.

   • 1894, Donald Macleod, Past worthies of the Lennox, a garland of their droll sayings and doings, page 176:

     She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel.

   • 1903, Seumas MacManus, A Lad of the O'Friels, page 43:

     "Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.

   • 1939, P. Gallagher, My Story, page 98:

     A fine bowl of tea and a junt of flour bread.

2. (African-American Vernacular, Memphis) Thing, item.
   • 2000, Three 6 Mafia, " Pass That Junt":

     Pass that junt, pass that junt nigga

   • 2013 October 28, Katori Hall, Katori Hall Plays One: Hoodoo Love; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; The Mountaintop; Hurt Village, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 261:

     [The play Hurt Village. Page 261:] These junts is heavy. […] [Page 326:] 'cause he never stop believin' that one day thar junt was gone be blowed off.