dunt
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]dunt (plural dunts)
- (Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274:
- 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.
Verb
[edit]dunt (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted)
- (Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- 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.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]dunt (uncountable)
Etymology 3
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Contraction
[edit]dunt
References
[edit]- OED 2nd edition 1989
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]dunt
- inflection of dunnen:
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]dunt
- past participle of dynja
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *de unde, from Latin dē unde.
Preposition
[edit]dunt
Usage notes
[edit]- Like French dont, may be translated by of whom when it refers to a person and of which when it does not.
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