Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food). · Thing, item. · A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
Apparently a figurative extension of Early Scots junt (“joint”), Middle English joynt, junte (“joint (of the body, where the bones meet)”), perhaps influenced by junk. Compare jawn.
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- Inherited-form mentionjoyntenm
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