dunt
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.60 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
contraction
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dunt, dynt, *dunti, *duntiz, *dʰen-
Usage
- British usage
- Uncountable