the smallest, weakest animal of the young that are born from the same mother at the same time (一胎中)最弱小的动物 the runt of the litter 最弱小的幼崽
- (informal, disapproving)
a rude way of referring to somebody who is small, weak or unimportant 小矮个儿;小不点儿
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘old or decayed tree stump’): of unknown origin.