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stunt¹
- /stʌnt/
- /stʊnt/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌnt
Where it comes from
Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
noun stunts
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills. 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.
- An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- Ellipsis of publicity stunt
- A skill. "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."
- A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
verb stunts · stunting · stunted
- To perform a stunt.
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To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt.
Similar: flamboast, floss, high-side, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flaunt, flex
stunt²
- /stʌnt/
- /stʊnt/ Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌnt
Where it comes from
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.
verb stunts · stunting · stunted
- To check or hinder the growth or development of. Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
noun 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: acrobatics, aerobatics, stunt flying, stuntman, decoy, understudy, manoeuvring, gimmick, punch, tour, stuff, turn, trick, job, feat, blow
Translations
Every language
noun dangerous feat
| Español | espectáculo peligroso, escena de alto riesgo, acrobacia, acrobatismo |
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| 日本語 | 無茶 mucha |
| 中文 | 特技 tèjì, 危险举动 |
| Português | proeza |
| Français | cascade, acrobatie, coup publicitaire |
| Deutsch | Stunt, waghalsiges Kunststück, Trick, Nummer, Einlage, Gag |
| Italiano | acrobazia |
| Română | cascadorie, acrobație |
| Русский | трюк trjuk |
| עברית | פַּעֲלוּל pa'lúl |
verb to show off, posture
| Русский | понтоваться pontovatʹsja |
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verb to check or hinder the growth or development
| 中文 | 阻碍 zǔ'ài |
|---|---|
| Français | inhiber, retarder la croissance |
| Deutsch | verkümmern, hemmen, verkümmern lassen, bremsen, im Wachstum hindern, verbutten |
| Русский | подавлять podavljatʹ |
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