Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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contraction
Pronunciation spelling of don't.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Yorkshire, alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, uncountable
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verb
To strike; give a blow to; knock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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History
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.
