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prettygoodworddunt (DUHNT) - v., to hit heavily, strike. n., a heavy blow, esp. one that makes a dull thump.
Chiefly Scottish. This one is another Old English survivor remembered only up north, original form dynt, which also meant a bruise or the mark of such a blow. Dint, as in force/power and a dent, as well as (in Scotland again) the blow itself, is a cognate from the same Old English.
---L.
Chiefly Scottish. This one is another Old English survivor remembered only up north, original form dynt, which also meant a bruise or the mark of such a blow. Dint, as in force/power and a dent, as well as (in Scotland again) the blow itself, is a cognate from the same Old English.
---L.
