different between prunt vs brunt

English

Etymology

Unknown. Akin to English print, Scots prent (“a print”), Dutch prent (“a print”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??nt/

Noun

prunt (plural prunts)

1. A small piece of glass fused to the main body of a piece of glasswork and then shaped or pressed, for decoration

English

Etymology

From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”), or bruna (“to rush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

brunt (plural brunts)

1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
   • 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar

     There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
2. The major part of something; the bulk.

Translations

Verb

brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)

1. (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:

     "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"

     "What if they do? We must brunt it."

   We brunted the storm.

Anagrams

• burnt

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Swedish

Adjective

brunt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.