brundle / dunt
Nov. 20th, 2009 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordAnd to wrap up this Forgotten English week, two I've been hanging on to since May, and am only getting to posting:
brundle - "To be as a child when walking. —Walter Skeat's Glossary of Devonshire Words, 1896"
dunt - "To knock with a dull sound, as with the first in the back or ribs ... Stupid, dizzy, or giddy, from and affection of the brain; said especially of sheep. —Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1897"
And from the Random House Dictionary, we also learn that dunt is still unforgotten in this sense, at least in Scotland, and that it's also "(of ceramic ware) to crack because of excessively rapid cooling."
Back next week with the usual wordmix.
---L.
brundle - "To be as a child when walking. —Walter Skeat's Glossary of Devonshire Words, 1896"
dunt - "To knock with a dull sound, as with the first in the back or ribs ... Stupid, dizzy, or giddy, from and affection of the brain; said especially of sheep. —Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1897"
And from the Random House Dictionary, we also learn that dunt is still unforgotten in this sense, at least in Scotland, and that it's also "(of ceramic ware) to crack because of excessively rapid cooling."
Back next week with the usual wordmix.
---L.
