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dunt.

A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

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.

verb
  1. To strike; give a blow to; knock.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

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
  1. The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

    UK · dialectal · uncountable
contraction
  1. Pronunciation spelling of don't.

    Yorkshire · alt-of · contraction · pronunciation-spelling
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