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名詞

dunt (plural 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 (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle 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.

語源 2

名詞

dunt (uncountable)

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

語源 3

別の表記

• dun't

短縮形

dunt

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

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dunt”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.