sprunt
To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump.
obsolete
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.
archaic, intransitive
To a laft amang some hay; Like others i' the splunting way.
To court, flirt, or make romantic advances; esp. after dusk and under the cover of darkness, sometimes among haystacks. — To seek to gain the affections of a person.
archaic, intransitive
Where it comes from
Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sprunt (CC BY-SA 4.0).