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plural dunts
(Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow. quotations examples
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.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 274
third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted
(Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock. quotations examples
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.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
uncountable
(UK, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep. examples
(Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't. examples