dunt

See also: dun't

English

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.

dunt (plural dunts)

(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.

dunt (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted)

(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.

dunt (uncountable)

dunt

dunt

inflection of dunnen:
1. second/third-person singular present indicative
2. (archaic) plural imperative

dunt

From Vulgar Latin *de unde, from Latin dē + unde.

dunt

of; of which; of whom
- c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 94 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN), line 853:
  mais de l'el dunt vos oi parler
  but of the thing I hear you speak of

Like French dont, may be translated by of whom when it refers to a person and of which when it does not.