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单词 dunt
释义 I. dunt, n.1 Chiefly Sc. and dial.|dʌnt|
Also 5–6 dount.
[app. a phonetic variant of dint n., perh. modified to express the duller sound implied. Cf. also Sw. dial. dunt in same sense. (In early ME. dunt (-y-) is merely a southern spelling of dynt, dint.)]
1. a. A firm but dull-sounding blow or stroke.
c1420Chron. Vilod. 183 Wt ouȝt ony stroke, dount, or wound.1513Douglas æneis xi. xvii. 60 Full hastely doun swakkis, dunt for dunt.1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 572 All with ane dunt the dur sone vp tha dang.c1690Roxb. Ball. (1888) VI. 616 And double dunts upon their rumps, the lads began to fa' then.1788Burns Naebody 12 I'll tak dunts frae nae-body.
b. A wound produced by such a blow.
1886Stevenson Kidnapped vii. 56 My visitor..set himself to wash and dress the wound upon my scalp. ‘Ay’, said he, ‘a sore dunt’.1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 279 Wi' a three-cornered dunt on his broo.
c. A beat or palpitation of the heart.
1768Ross Helenore 62 (Jam.) Dunt for dunt, her heart began to beat.1789Davidson Seasons 52 (Jam.) Ilk rowt the twa gave thwart the burn Cam o'er her heart a dunt.
d. R.A.F. slang. (See quot. 1924.)
1924Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. Mar. 198 Special temperature conditions are brought about by vertical currents of air. The vertical currents usually consist of a hot stream of air rising or a cold stream falling. In flying into such a current the airship will experience a ‘dunt’. The ‘dunt’ received will depend on two actions—one the dynamic action of the current, and the other the sudden change in lift due to change in temperature.1928E. F. Spanner Gentlemen prefer Aeroplanes vi. 43 Moderate clouds—unavoidable temperature ‘dunts’—and so on.Ibid. x. 71 When the vessel meets ‘temperature ‘dunts’’ and other atmospheric irregularities.
2. dunt-about, a person or thing knocked about, ill-used, or made a convenience of.
1825–80in Jamieson.1892Northumbld. Gloss., s.v., ‘Aye, poor thing, she's a fair dunt-aboot.’
II. dunt, a. and n.2 dial.
[perh. f. root of dun v.2: cf. dunch, dunny.]
A. adj. Stupid, dizzy, or giddy, from an affection of the brain: said especially of sheep or calves.
1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Dunt, stupified, numbed. Norf...A dunt sheep, one that mopes about, from a disorder in his head.1794Vancouver Agric. Surv. Cambr. 33 Dying dunt (as the shepherds term it) that is dizzy.a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dunt, stupid; or dizzy. A dizzy calf with water in the head is said to be dunt.1893F. B. Zincke Wherstead 276 Dunt [in East Anglia, means] chronically stupid from some affection or lesion of the brain.
B. n. The gid or sturdy, in sheep, etc.
1784Young Ann. Agric. II. 436 Dunt, a distemper [in sheep] caused by a bladder of water gathering in the head; no cure.1822–34Good Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 355 The staggering or vertiginous disease which is provincially known by the name of dunt.
III. dunt, v.1 Sc. and dial.|dʌnt|
[f. dunt n.1, or variant of dint v. (sense 1): cf. also Sw. dial. dunta to strike, shake.]
1. trans. To knock with a dull sound, as with the fist in the back or ribs. Also absol. or intr.
1570Henry's Wallace x. 285 Duschyt in dros, duntit [MS. in gloss, dewyt] with speris dynt.c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 393 The dunting of Mells and Hammers.1789Davidson Seasons 59 (Jam.) The pliant foot..Dunting, oppressive, on the verdant path.1806Jamieson's Pop. Ball. I. 304 (Jam.) He dunted o' the kist, the buirds did flee.1895Crockett Men of Mosshags 38 The sound of my mother's roller..‘dunt-dunting’ on the dough.Mod. Sc. It's too good a hat to be dunted about every day.
b. to dunt out: to drive out by knocking; to thresh or beat out. Also fig.
1768Ross Helenore 115 (Jam.) Ae thing I'd hae dunted out.1823Galt R. Gilhaize II. 220 (Jam.) Fearing the wrathful ram might dunt out the bowels, or the brains..of the young cavalier.1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xiii. (1873) 81 Johnny's principle of action, as regarded differences between himself and others, was always to ‘dunt it oot’ as he went along.
2. intr. Of the heart: To beat violently.
1724Ramsay Evergreen (1824) II. 17 Neir dunt again within my Breist.1795Burns To Mitchell 11 While my heart wi' life-blood dunted.1801Macneill Poet. Wks. (1844) 111 His proud heart it dunted.
IV. dunt, v.2 dial.
[Belongs to dunt a.]
trans. To drive stupid; to deafen or stun with noise.
1787Grose Provinc. Gloss. s.v., How you dunt me, saying of a mother to a crying child.a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Dunt, to stupify.
V. dunt
early ME. form of dint.
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