dunt
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- Scrabble points
- 5
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- 7
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- 4
Definition of dunt
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Scotland)A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
“He was alive to every creak andd dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.”
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noun
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(Scotland)A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
“He was alive to every creak andd dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.”
- (UK, dialectal, uncountable)The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.
verb
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(Scotland)To strike; give a blow to; knock.
“Syne he was the king of France, and fought hard with a whin bush till he had banged it to pieces. After that nothing would content him but he must be a bogle, for he found his head dunting on the stars and his legs were knocking the hills together.”
contraction
- (Yorkshire, alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of don't.
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Etymology
From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”). Doublet of dent and dint.
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