stint
/stɪnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
verb
To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
noun
A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
Example Sentences
- "We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt"
- "O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]"
- "And stint thou too, I pray thee."
- "The damsel stinted in her song."
- "The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer."
- "I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants"
Etymology
From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stinten, styntan, *stuntijan, *stuntijaną, *stintaną