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strunt
English
Etymology 1
Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”).
Noun
strunt (countable and uncountable, plural strunts)
- (Scotland, uncountable) Spirituous liquor; alcoholic drink.
- 1785, Robert Burns, Halloween
- Syne, wi' a social glass o' strunt, / They parted aff careerin / Fu' blythe that night.
- 1785, Robert Burns, Halloween
- (Scotland, countable) A drink of spirits; a dram.
- (Britain, dialect, countable) A sulky fit; sullenness.
Derived terms
- struntish
- strunty
Etymology 2
Compare Middle High German strunze (“stump”).
Noun
strunt (plural strunts)
- (Britain, dialectal) A tail or rump
- (Britain, dialectal) Anything short or contracted
Etymology 3
From Scots strunt (“human faeces, dung”), from Dutch stront or Low German strunt, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *strunt (“dirt, filth, dung”).
Noun
strunt (uncountable)
- (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) faeces, dung
- (Britain, dialectal) Foul air; a black, suffocating damp in a colliery
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German strunt, from Old Saxon *strunt, from Proto-West Germanic *strunt.
Noun
strunt n
- nonsense; that which is not worth paying attention to
Declension
Derived terms
- struntprat
- struntsnack
Related terms
- strunta i
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stunt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
Noun
stunt (plural stunts)
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- (archaic) skill
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
- "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
- (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
Hyponyms
- publicity stunt
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: stunt
- ? German: Stunt
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: stunt
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: stunt
Translations
Verb
stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)
- (intransitive, cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off; to posture.
- 2015, Seth Turner Jr., Brother: The Self-made Story of a St. Louis Entrepreneur:
- I was that interested because I wanted the Z28, but I wasn't going another day with Sterling stunting on me with the Contour.
- 2015, Seth Turner Jr., Brother: The Self-made Story of a St. Louis Entrepreneur:
Translations
Etymology 2
From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.
Verb
stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)
- (transitive) To check or hinder the growth or development of.
Translations
Noun
stunt (plural stunts)
- A check in growth.
- That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
- A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
Anagrams
- Nutts
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
stunt m (plural stunts, diminutive stuntje n)
- stunt
Verb
stunt
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of stunten
- imperative of stunten
Middle English
Noun
stunt
- Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English stunt.
Noun
stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta or stuntene)
- a stunt
Derived terms
- stuntmann
References
- “stunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English stunt.
Noun
stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta)
- a stunt
Derived terms
- stuntmann
References
- “stunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, stunted; stupid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stunt/
Adjective
stunt
- stupid, foolish
- (substantive) idiot, fool
Declension
Synonyms
- dwæs
Descendants
- Middle English: stunt, stont
- English: stunt
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