duntとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dunt (複数形 dunts)

1. (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.

動詞

dunt (三人称単数 現在形 dunts, 現在分詞 dunting, 過去形および過去分詞形 dunted)

1. (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.

名詞

dunt (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

別の表記

• dun't

短縮形

dunt

1. (Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't.

参照

• OED 2nd edition 1989