stint
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stint¹
- /stɪnt/
Rhymes with -ɪnt
Where it comes from
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”).
verb stints · stinting · stinted
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To stop (an action); cease, desist.
We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt
Similar: anchor, astand, blin, brake, cease, desist, draw up, grind to a halt, halt, hold, immobilize, leave off
- To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
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To be sparing or mean.
The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
Similar: skimp
- To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance. 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
- 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.
- To impregnate successfully; to get with foal. The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
noun stints
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. He had a stint in jail.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent. God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. Jack bovv'd and vvas oblig'd—confeſs'd 'tvvas ſtrange / That ſo retir'd he ſhould not vviſh a change, / But knevv no medium betvveen guzzling beer, / And his old stint—three thouſand pounds a year.
- A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops. That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.
stint²
- /stɪnt/
Rhymes with -ɪnt
Where it comes from
Origin unknown.
noun stints
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
stint³
- /stɪnt/
Rhymes with -ɪnt
noun
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: stretch, scant, scrimp, skimp, erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stay, restrict, subsistence, pass, passing, transition, probationary, chore, period, changeover
Translations
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verb to stop, cease, desist
| Español | cesar |
|---|
verb to stop speaking or talking
| Español | callarse |
|---|
verb to be sparing or mean
| Español | escatimar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | geizen |
| Русский | скупи́ться skupítʹsja |
noun a period of time spent doing or being something
| Español | tiempo, lapso |
|---|---|
| Français | passage, séjour |
| Italiano | gavetta |
| Русский | бы́тность býtnostʹ |
noun quantity or task assigned
| Español | turno |
|---|
noun wading bird of the genus Calidris
| Español | correlimos |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Strandläufer |
| Română | fugaci |
| Русский | песочник pesočnik |
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title = {stint},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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