Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stroke; a blow.
- noun A malady characterized by staggering, observed particularly in yearling lambs.
- noun Palpitation.
- To strike; give a blow to; knock.
- In packing herrings, to jump upon (the head of the barrel) in order to pack it more tightly.
- To confuse by noise; stupefy.
- To beat; palpitate, as the heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A blow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland A
stroke ; a dull-soundingblow - verb Scotland To
strike ; give ablow to;knock .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do not tell customers you can smell their "dunt," because you are not fooling anyone.
Skippy's List 2008
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The DSO caters to all audiences (Mozart to Brahms to John Williams (daaah dunt, daaah dunt, daah dunt, daah dunt daah dunt daah dunt)).
Colin Darke: Detroit: A Cultural Garden Colin Darke 2011
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Yes | No | Report from Christian Emter wrote 43 weeks 1 day ago song: da dunt da dunt da dunt da dunt.
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The DSO caters to all audiences (Mozart to Brahms to John Williams (daaah dunt, daaah dunt, daah dunt, daah dunt daah dunt daah dunt)).
Colin Darke: Detroit: A Cultural Garden Colin Darke 2011
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Eugene Debs sponsered by the Church of the presumptious assumption says: dunt
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Yes | No | Report from Christian Emter wrote 43 weeks 1 day ago song: da dunt da dunt da dunt da dunt.
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April 18, 2010 at 3:20 pm ai dunt fink dis goan maik eet to kfc
A Farewell to Arms - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Ai jus git dose in mai spam bocks… appurrintlee teh inturtoobs dunt noe ai iz a wummin?
U jus won a lyfetyme supply - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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May 5, 2010 at 5:21 pm predator kitteh dunt sweeet coat his intenshuns……
Predator cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Enni fasta an de bubllol orl go pop an de protektib jakkt dunt werk fur de nexx run.
Buddhist kitteh says: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
bilby commented on the word dunt
"Sometimes the wind dunted the doors extra hard and made them swing inward and admit a hissing draught." - from Lanark, by Alistair Gray. It appears that parts of this novel were published as early as 1969 while the definitive version is from 1981.
November 19, 2007
yarb commented on the word dunt
Citation on blethers.
July 11, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dunt
Stupefied, numbed. Old provincial term from Norfolk England. "How you dunt me, saying of a mother to a crying child. A dunt sheep, one that mopes about, from a disorder in his head." --Grose's A Provincial Glossary, 1787.
May 7, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word dunt
(verb/adjective) - (1) To knock with a dull sound, as with the fist in the back or ribs. Stupid, dizzy, or giddy, from an affection of the brain; said especially of sheep. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897 (2) To stupefy. --Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830 (3) Stupefied. Dunt sheep, one that mopes about from a disorder in his head; Norfolk. --Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796
February 12, 2018