stunt
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Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
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stunt (plural stunts)
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- He found ways to devise, stage, and film stunts that are like nothing anyone’s ever accomplished. He recorded stunning image after stunning image; practically every frame of Fury Road could be a painting.
- (archaic) skill
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
- "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."
- (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
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stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)
- (intransitive, cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off; to posture.
- 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown[2], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
- Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt.
- 2015, Seth Turner Jr., Brother: The Self-made Story of a St. Louis Entrepreneur:
- I was that interested because I wanted the Z28, but I wasn't going another day with Sterling stunting on me with the Contour.
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Etymology 2 edit
From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.
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stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)
- (transitive) To check or hinder the growth or development of.
- Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
- The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.
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stunt (plural stunts)
- A check in growth.
- That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
- A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
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stunt m (plural stunts, diminutive stuntje n)
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stunt
- inflection of stunten:
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stunt
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stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta or stuntene)
- a stunt
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- “stunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta)
- a stunt
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- “stunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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From Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, stunted; stupid”).
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stunt
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stunt n
- a stunt (in a movie, as often performed by stuntmen)
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| Declension of stunt | ||||
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| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | stunt | stuntet | stunt | stunten |
| Genitive | stunts | stuntets | stunts | stuntens |