English Explanatory Dictionary

dunt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
verb
  1. To strike; give a blow to; knock.
noun
  1. The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.
contraction
  1. Pronunciation spelling of don't.

Word forms

dunt dunts dunting dunted dun't

Etymology

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”). Doublet of dent and dint.

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