duntn.1int.
/dʌnt/, U.S. /dənt/, Scottish English /dʌnt/ A. n.1
I. Senses relating to a blow or fall.† 3. Aeronautics. A sudden drop or rise experienced by an airship, parachute, etc., encountering a vertical current of cold or hot air; (also) a current of air having this effect. Obsolete.
1. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern).
a. A blow, esp. a heavy or forceful one. In later use also: a sharp push or shove, esp. a nudge or poke with the elbow; cf. dunch n. 2b(a).Also recorded in a number of regions of England, esp. in the eastern part of the country, e.g. Northumberland, Lincolnshire, and East Anglia.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow
smitea1200
ponder1339
clouta1400
whopc1440
routa1450
maul1481
sousec1500
dunta1522
flake1559
lambskin1573
lamback1592
daud1596
baster1600
mell1658
thumper1682
lounder1723
smash1725
plumper1756
spanker1772
douser1782
thud1787
bash1805
stave1819
batter1823
belter1823
wallop1823
whacker1823
belt1825
smasher1829
dingbat1843
dinger1845
oner1861
squeaker1877
clod1886
wham1923
dong1941
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xvii. 60 Full hastely doun swakkis, dunt for dunt.
a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. F Words are but wind, but dunts are the devil.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. l. 35855 With ane dunt the dur sone vp tha dang.
1689 Memorable Battle Killy Crankie (single sheet) And double Dunts upon their Rumps, The Lads began to fa' then.
1753 Ulster Misc. 375 Then wi' a nip, or scart, or dunt, He gart it squeek, or squeel, or grunt.
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 624 I'll tak dunts frae naebody.
1823 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Sept. 313 Ye may as weel gi'e a dunt upo' that door wi' your steekit nieve.
1888 T. Mason A. Dickson xx. 252 You gae'm a dunt on the nose.
1915 A. S. Neill Dominie's Log xiii. 147 He receives a harder dunt on the arm.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 46 He had gave him a real heavy dunt, but he didnay seem to fall.
2009 E. Thom Tin-kin 128 I gave Rachel a dunt with my elbow.
b. A sudden, jolting impact, such as a heavy fall; the dull sound caused by such an impact; a bump, a bang; a thud. Cf. dunch n. 1, 2c.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > heavy fall
squatc1350
plump1596
gulch1671
sosh1687
soss1718
swaga1728
souse1774
dunt1828
swat1847
slump1850
gutser1918
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 201 I went a dunt on the causeway.
1865 W. H. L. Tester Poems 134 An' baith o' ye notice it be carefully done, An' no lat me doon wi' a dunt to the grun.
1902 J. J. Bell Wee MacGreegor i. 7 ‘Ye see whit ye get fur no lukin' whaur ye're gaun,’ said his mother... ‘Puir mannie, it wis a gey sair dunt,’ she added gently.
1915 V. Jacob Songs of Angus 17 He cam' hurlin' owre the front, An' struck the road wi' sic a dunt.
1991 W. Elliot Song for Yarrow 18 He came doon wi a dunt.
2015 New Writing Scotl. 33 71 Another moth..headbutts the windscreen. It makes a loud dunt.
c. A wound or injury resulting from a heavy blow or fall, or a similar impact; (also) a dent made in something by an impact of this kind.Often modified by sore.Also recorded in Northumberland in the mid 20th cent.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > other wounds
sursanurec1400
blood wound1632
dunt1886
blood injury1909
Blighty1915
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped vii. 56 My visitor..set himself to wash and dress the wound upon my scalp. ‘Ay,’ said he, ‘a sore dunt.’
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxxiii. 279 Wi' a three-cornered dunt on his broo.
1929 in Sc. National Dict. at Dunt [Orkney] There's a dunt in the side o the tin box.
1944 ‘J. Bridie’ Mr Bolfry iv, in Devil to Stage (2007) 225 Maybe you didn't kill him, but I'm sure you'd give him a sore dunt.
2008 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Nov. 31 The dunt on the side of my head only makes its presence felt when I comb my hair.
2015 M. C. Beaton Death of Liar vii. 127 They look a bit dingy, and that one of the left has a sair dunt in it.
2. figurative. Scottish. A sudden shock or setback; an acute disappointment.Often modified by sore.
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1811 H. Macneill Bygane Times 38 A good round sum wi' interest on't For mony a year, was sic a dunt, That in a blink this scoundrel brack.
1927 Scots Mag. Aug. 337 Puir wee lass. Ye've had a sair dunt... Aweel, we live an' learn.
1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's x, in Miss Cranston's Omnibus (1998) 82 I mind yet the dunt it gave you when you touched a line and had to sit out until the next time round.
2007 S. Blackhall Quarry i. 11 Jude an Cammy's trade in the market tuik a sair dunt.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > which may cause displacement of an aircraft
remou1858
dunt1919
1919 Aeronautics 6 Nov. 425/1 Those abnormal happenings in the air—such as down dunts.
1924 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 28 198 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.
1928 E. F. Spanner Gentlemen prefer Aeroplanes x. 71 When the vessel meets ‘temperature “dunts”’ and other atmospheric irregularities.
II. A beat of the heart, a palpitation.
4. Scottish. A quickened or throbbing beat of the heart; a palpitation. Cf. earlier sense B. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. records this sense as still in use in Banffshire, Aberdeenshire, and Fife in 1941.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > heartbeat > [noun] > types of
palpitation?a1425
panting1440
dunt1768
wallop1824
apex beat1847
afterbeat1853
impulse1873
extrasystole1900
sinus rhythm1911
afterpotential1930
afterload1941
preload1960
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 58 An' dunt for dunt her heart began to beat.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 52 Ilk rowt the twa gave thwart the burn Cam o'er her heart a dunt.
1870 J. Nicholson Idylls o' Hame 34 Losh! what a dunt my bosom gied, When first upon the yird I spied.
1914 Scotsman 5 Dec. 11/5 Her heart-throbs eased their dunt.
III. A piece or quantity of something.
5. Scottish. A lump or large piece of something; (later also) a large quantity or helping of something.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > large or thick piece
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lunch1591
chuck1674
chunk1691
junt1718
daud1721
junk1726
hunch1790
hunk1809
dunt1813
knoll1829
nugget1853
slug1867
1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 66 A dunt o' scowthert cheese Stuck on a prong.
1856 J. Ballantine Poems 68 Thou dauds him up, a movin' fright, Wi' dunts o' glaur.
1930 Orcadian 13 Feb. in Sc. National Dict. at Dunt I mind once a schoolboy who complained of another who took his twal-piece, and gave him instead a filty dunt o' corn-bread.
2013 @TraiterTott 23 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Get a dunt of Christmas cake and wine and erase the badness with festiveness.
B. int. Scottish.
Representing a quickened, throbbing beat of the heart; (also) representing the noise made by a sudden, jolting impact, such as a heavy blow or fall. Frequently reduplicated. Cf. senses A. 1b, A. 4.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [interjection]
dunt1737
zap1929
1737 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. IV. 180 My Heart play'd ay Dunt, dunt, dunt, pittie, pattie.
1899 Border Mag. Mar. 51/2 What a roar went up as his stone went dunt against his opponent's.
1916 G. Abel Wylins fae my Wallet 102 My hert gaed dunt, my han's did shak', My e'en war like to greet.
1922 D. Kennedy in J. Alexander Encore! 185 Ma hairt gaed—dunt-dunt-dunt! for ah kent it was him.
2002 S. Blackhall Fower Quarters iv. 122 She heard him kickin a beer can doon the road. Dunt! Dunt! Dunt! gaed the beer can.
Phrases
Scottish. to get the dunt: to be rendered useless or inactive; esp. to be dismissed or rejected from a job or position. Also to give (a person) the (heavy) dunt: to get rid of, esp. to dismiss from a job or position. Sc. National Dict. records to get the dunt in the sense ‘to be dismissed’ in Aberdeenshire in 1950.
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1929 St. Andrews Citizen 9 Feb. 9/3 Their inspiration's got the dunt, Twa dune auld footers.
1985 M. Munro Patter 33 Is it no time ye were giein that wee toerag the heavy dunt?
1998 N. Harper Spik o the Place 43 That's me hame early, petal. I've got the dunt.
2008 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 16 Sept. 18 I'll give him till New Year before he gets the dunt.
2015 @AlanTasker 21 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) He left, he wasn't given the dunt.
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duntn.2adj.
/dʌnt/, U.S. /dənt/ English regional (East Anglian).
A. n.2
A parasitic disease of sheep and other ruminants caused by the larvae of certain tapeworms (esp. Taenia multiceps) encysted in the brain, characterized by unsteady gait and loss of balance. Now historical and rare.The disease is also known by a variety of other (often regional or colloquial) names: see quot. 1990 for some example.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders
shotc1500
foul?1523
redwater1594
blacklega1722
garget1725
dunt1784
black water1800
cothe1800
fardel-bound1825
navel ill1834
bluetongue1867
heartwater1880
orf1890
tick-borne fever1921
strike1932
1784 Ann. Agric. 2 436 Dunt, a distemper [in sheep] caused by a bladder of water gathering in the head; no cure.
1796 Telegraph 9 June What attempts have been made to cure the rot, and with what success?.. Dunt, or gid?
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 355 That staggering or vertiginous disease which is provincially known by the name of dunt.
1860 Ipswich Jrnl. 29 Sept. 7/2 It was a remarkable fact that a tape worm, such as was found in dogs, would, if swallowed by a sheep, change its form and cause ‘dunt’, and vice versa.
1990 Daily Tel. Mag. 16 June 8/1 One sheep disease has regional names of intriguing diversity: sturdy, bleb, turnstick, paterish, goggles, dunt and pendro are all gid.
B. adj.
Of a sheep or calf: dizzy, unstable, or confused as the result of a disorder of the brain (see sense A.). In later use more generally, usually of a person: stupefied, dazed; foolish, muddle-headed.
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [adjective] > stupefied
astonedc1300
astonieda1375
obstupefacta1538
moidered1587
dunt1787
stupefied1790
moidering1839
punch-drunk1922
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Dunt, stupified, numbed. Norf...A dunt sheep, one that mopes about, from a disorder in his head.
1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 33 Dying dunt (as the shepherds term it) that is dizzy.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Dunt, stupid; or dizzy. A dizzy calf with water in the head is said to be dunt.
1893 F. B. Zincke Wherstead: Some Materials Hist. (ed. 2) 276 Dunt [in East Anglia, means] chronically stupid from some affection or lesion of the brain.
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree viii. 120 I suppose we shall grow ‘dunt’, as they say, when we grow old.
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 33 Dunt (or Dunty), stupid, muddle-headed.
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duntn.3
/dʌnt/, U.S. /dənt/ Ceramics.
A crack in ceramic material caused when heating or cooling takes place too rapidly, typically during the firing or cooling of a kiln.
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1901 E. A. Sandeman Notes Manuf. Earthenware xvii. 241 If the dunt shows no opening at the commencement of the crack, it indicates a ‘cooling’ dunt caused by letting in too much cold air.
1918 Brick & Clay Rec. 19 Nov. 902/2 There are records of dunts appearing in a piece after it has been installed by the trade.
1969 H. Fraser Kilns & Kiln Firing for Craft Potter xv. 118 It is usually possible to tell whether a dunt has occurred when pottery is being heated in the kiln or whether it occurred in the cooling operation by inspecting the edges of the crack.
1995 Y. H. Cuff Ceramic Technol. for Potters & Sculptors v. 94 The cooling dunt is sharp-edged, while in a firing dunt the glaze melts after the dunt has occurred and flows over the edge.
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duntv.1
/dʌnt/, U.S. /dənt/, Scottish English /dʌnt/, Irish English /dʌnt/ Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern).
1. To strike, knock, or bump against someone or something, esp. in a way that produces a dull sound.
a. transitive. Also with adverbs, as out, about.In modern use sometimes overlapping with more specific senses of dunch; compare, e.g., quots. 1823, 1916 with dunch v. 2.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22643 (MED) Þan sal þe raynbow decend..And..Drif þaim doun into þe hel, And dunt þe deueles þiderin.
1570 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Lekprevik) xi. f. 147v Duschit in dros, duntit [1488 Adv. in glos, dewyt] with speiris dynt.
1714 R. Smith Poems of Controv. 60 Men with Swords the Deer were dunting.
1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize II. xxii. 220 Fearing the wrathful ram might dunt out the bowels, or the brains..of the..young cavalier.
1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray xi. 178 I had been dunted about by nearly everybody.
1916 Country Life 12 Aug. 176/1 The sturdy calves dunted the udders of the milky mothers.
1986 J. McKenzie City Whitelight 22 Jackie was still looking rather stupidly in that direction when the old man dunted him on the shoulder.
2009 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 17 May (Opinion section) 2/1 I would have been tempted to dunt his brainless conscienceless nut.
b. intransitive. In modern use typically followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by against, into, on, etc.
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a1525 Bk. Chess l. 329 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I Abone his hed a richt gret noyes yai mak Thai stampe yai dwnt.
c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 47 Nane docht induir quhair Durandall did dont.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 59 The pliant foot..Dunting, oppressive, on the verdant path.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 304 He dunted o' the kist, the buirds did flee.
1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 210 He tirl'd fu' lood at the window glass, And he duntit and knockit to waken the lass.
1938 M. McLaverty in Capuchin Ann. 1939 154/1 She continued to bark as the wind dunted against the walls and made them shake.
1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts vi. 88 Sorry? Rona dunted into her, not able to see. Come again?
2. intransitive. Of the heart: to beat rapidly; to throb; to palpitate.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > heartbeat > [verb (intransitive)] > types of
tripc1430
duntc1550
drum1594
palpitate1623
race1853
c1550 Clariodus (1830) iv. l. 1775 The hundis in thair leasches dois abraid, Thair heartis dunting in breistis for desyre.
1724 A. Ramsay Ever Green II. 17 Neir dunt again within my Breist.
1795 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 805 While my heart wi' life-blood dunted.
1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 43 His proud heart it dunted.
1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 743/2 Listening with mouths open and hearts dunting.
1953 K. M. Briggs Personnel of Fairyland (1969) 153 His heart dunted against his side.
2004 H. Spears Flourish viii. 84 Her claws gripped tight and her wee heart dunting.
3. transitive. With out. To talk through (a question or point of dispute) frankly and thoroughly, esp. so as to reach a decision or solution; to thrash out. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at dunt) records the word as still in use in Aberdeenshire in 1933.
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 111 Ae thing I'd hae dunted out.
1822 A. Balfour Farmers' Three Daughters I. v Lat Mary an' me dunt out our dispute atweest ourselves.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xiii. 99 Johnny's principle of action, as regarded differences between himself and others, was always to ‘dunt it oot’ as he went along.
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duntv.2
/dʌnt/, U.S. /dənt/ English regional (East Anglian and Lincolnshire).
transitive. To stun, bewilder, or overwhelm (a person), esp. with incessant noise; to stupefy; to deafen.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > deafen or stun
adinc1275
stonyc1330
astone1340
astony1340
deavea1400
fordeave?1553
blasta1616
stun1621
obtund1664
dunt1672
dun1674
bruit1707
astound1727
steven1862
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)]
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confusec1350
confoundc1374
cumbera1375
passc1384
maskerc1400
mopc1425
enose1430
manga1450
overmusec1460
perplex1477
maze1482
enmuse1502
ruffle?a1505
unsteady1532
entangle1540
duddle1548
intricate1548
distraught1579
distract1582
mizzle1583
moider1587
amuse1595
mist1598
bepuzzle1599
gravel1601
plunder1601
puzzle1603
intrigue1612
vexa1613
metagrobolize?a1616
befumea1618
fuddle1617
crucify1621
bumfiddlea1625
implicate1625
giddify1628
wilder1642
buzzlea1644
empuzzle1646
dunce1649
addle1652
meander1652
emberlucock1653
flounder1654
study1654
disorient1655
embarrass?1656
essome1660
embrangle1664
jumble1668
dunt1672
muse1673
clutter1685
emblustricate1693
fluster1720
disorientate1728
obfuscate1729
fickle1736
flustrate1797
unharmonize1797
mystify1806
maffle1811
boggle1835
unballast1836
stomber1841
throw1844
serpentine1850
unbalance1856
tickle1865
fog1872
bumfuzzle1878
wander1897
to put off1909
defeat1914
dither1919
befuddle1926
ungear1931
to screw up1941
1672 G. Firmin Medit. Mr. Baxter's Rev. 13 This will cost so convenient time as not to dunt my Auditory.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (at cited word) How you dunt me, saying of a mother to a crying child.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Dunt, to stupify.
1900 Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 214/1 [Essex] This ere child's crying regler dunts me to death.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 86/2 'Ow them disco things dunt dunt them yung-uns compleately A'll nivver knaw!
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duntv.3
/dʌnt/, U.S. /dənt/ Ceramics.
intransitive. Of ceramic material: to crack as a result of heating or cooling too rapidly, typically during the firing or cooling of a kiln.
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1880 C. A. Janvier Pract. Keramics 69 Care must be taken to cool the ware very gradually.., or the pottery will crack or break in pieces—dunt or shiver.
1918 Brick & Clay Rec. 19 Nov. 902/2 A green piece in a heated shop will dunt on a winter's day if the window is suddenly opened.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts i. 41 If the kiln is allowed to cool too rapidly..the pottery may dunt.
2007 T. Snell P. Drysdale 128 Joining multiple sections proved impossible to manage because they dunted and distorted in the kiln.
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