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===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/stʌnt/}}
* {{IPA|en|/stʌnt/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-stunt.ogg|Audio (US)}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-stunt.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ʌnt|s=1}}
* {{rhymes|en|ʌnt|s=1}}


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|passage=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.}}
|passage=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.}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}} [[skill]]
# {{lb|en|archaic}} A [[skill]].
#* '''1912''', Stratemeyer Syndicate, ''Baseball Joe on the School Nine'' Chapter 1
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1912|author=Stratemeyer Syndicate|title=Baseball Joe on the School Nine|chapter=1
#*: "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."
|passage="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."}}
# {{lb|en|American football}} A special means of [[rush]]ing the [[quarterback]] done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
# {{lb|en|American football}} A special means of [[rush]]ing the [[quarterback]] done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.


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=====Derived terms=====
=====Derived terms=====
{{der4
{{der4
|en|stunt double
|en|media stunt|publicity stunt|stunt double
|stuntman
|stuntman
|stuntperson
|stuntperson|card stunt
|stuntwoman
|stuntwoman
|stunt casting|stunt cock|sweeps stunt}}
}}


=====Descendants=====
=====Descendants=====
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*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|特技|tr=tèjì}}, {{t|cmn|危险举动}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|特技|tr=tèjì}}, {{t|cmn|危险举动}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|kaskadérství|n}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|kaskadérství|n}}
* Danish: {{t|da|stunt|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|temppu}}, {{t+|fi|stuntti}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|temppu}}, {{t+|fi|stuntti}}
* French: {{t+|fr|cascade|f}}, {{t+|fr|acrobatie|f}}, {{t|fr|[[coup]] [[publicitaire]]|m}}
* French: {{t+|fr|cascade|f}}, {{t+|fr|acrobatie|f}}, {{t|fr|[[coup]] [[publicitaire]]|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Stunt|m}}, {{t+|de|Kunststück|n}}, {{t+|de|Trick|m}}, {{t+|de|Nummer|f}}, {{t+|de|Einlage|f}}, {{t+|de|Gag|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Stunt|m}}, {{t+|de|Kunststück|n}}, {{t+|de|Trick|m}}, {{t+|de|Nummer|f}}, {{t+|de|Einlage|f}}, {{t+|de|Gag|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|פַּעֲלוּל|m|tr=pa'lúl}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|mutatvány}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|mutatvány}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|acrobazia|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|acrobazia|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|無茶|tr=mucha}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|無茶|tr=mucha}}
* Latin: {{t|la|factus periculosus|m}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|neketūtū}}
* Norwegian:
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|stunt|n}}
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|stunt|n}}
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|трюк|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|трюк|m}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|cleas|m}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|cleas|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|proeza|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|proeza|f}}, {{t|es|[[espectáculo]] [[peligroso]]|m}}, {{t|es|[[escena]] [[de]] [[alto]] [[riesgo]]|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|stunt|n}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|stunt|n}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|marifet}}, {{t+|tr|numara}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|marifet}}, {{t+|tr|numara}}
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# {{lb|en|intransitive|cheerleading}} To perform a stunt.
# {{lb|en|intransitive|cheerleading}} To perform a stunt.
# {{lb|en|intransitive|slang|AAVE}} To [[show off]]; to [[posture]].
# {{lb|en|intransitive|slang|AAVE}} To [[show off]]; to [[posture]]; to [[flaunt]] valuables.
#*{{quote-song|en|lyricist=Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson|passage=Call me the juice and you know I'm a '''stunt'''.|url=https://genius.com/Three-6-mafia-stay-fly-lyrics|title=Stay Fly|publisher=Sony BMG|year=2005|album=Most Known Unknown|artist=Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG)}}
#* {{quote-song|en|lyricist=Jordan Houston; Darnell Carlton; Paul Beauregard; Premro Smith; Marlon Goodwin; David Brown; Willie Hutchinson|passage=Call me the juice and you know I'm a '''stunt'''.|url=https://genius.com/Three-6-mafia-stay-fly-lyrics|title=Stay Fly|publisher=Sony BMG|year=2005|album=Most Known Unknown|artist=Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG)}}
#*'''2015''', Seth Turner Jr., ''Brother: The Self-made Story of a St. Louis Entrepreneur'':
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2015|author=Seth Turner Jr.|title=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.
|passage=I was that interested because I wanted the Z28, but I wasn't going another day with Sterling '''stunting''' on me with the Contour.}}


=====Translations=====
=====Translations=====
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*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|阻碍}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|阻碍}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[ehkäistä]] [[kasvua]]}}, {{t|fi|[[estää]] [[kehitys]]}}; {{t+|fi|torpata}} {{qualifier|colloquial}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[ehkäistä]] [[kasvua]]}}, {{t|fi|[[estää]] [[kehitys]]}}; {{t+|fi|torpata}} {{qualifier|colloquial}}
* German: {{t+|de|verkümmern}}, {{t+|de|hemmen}}, {{t|de|verkümmern lassen}}, {{t+|de|bremsen}}, {{t|de|im Wachstum hindern}}
* French: {{t+|fr|inhiber}}, {{t|fr|retarder la croissance}}
* German: {{t+|de|verkümmern}}, {{t+|de|hemmen}}, {{t|de|verkümmern lassen}}, {{t+|de|bremsen}}, {{t|de|im Wachstum hindern}}, {{t|de|verbutten}}
* Occitan: {{t|oc|inibir}}, {{t+|oc|enebir}}, {{t|oc|impedir}}
* Occitan: {{t|oc|inibir}}, {{t+|oc|enebir}}, {{t|oc|impedir}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|подавлять|impf}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|подавлять|impf}}
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===Anagrams===
===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=nsttu|Nutts}}
* {{anagrams|en|a=nsttu|Nutts}}

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==Dutch==
==Dutch==


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|Nl-stunt.ogg|Audio}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-stunt.ogg}}


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|-s|stuntje}}
{{nl-noun|m|-s|+}}


# [[#English|stunt]]
# {{l|en|stunt}}


===Verb===
===Verb===
{{head|nl|verb form}}
{{head|nl|verb form}}


# {{nl-verb form of|stunten|p=123|n=sg|t=pres|m=indc}}
# {{infl of|nl|stunten||bare-ten-verb}}
# {{nl-verb form of|stunten|m=imp}}

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==Middle English==
==Middle English==
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# {{alt form|enm|stound|nodot=a}}: [[various]] [[span]]s of [[time]].
# {{alt form|enm|stound|nodot=a}}: [[various]] [[span]]s of [[time]].

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==Norwegian Bokmål==
==Norwegian Bokmål==
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===References===
===References===
* {{R:The Bokmål Dictionary}}
* {{R:The Bokmål Dictionary}}

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==Norwegian Nynorsk==
==Norwegian Nynorsk==
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===References===
===References===
* {{R:The Nynorsk Dictionary}}
* {{R:The Nynorsk Dictionary}}

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==Old English==
==Old English==
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* {{desc|enm|stunt|stont}}
* {{desc|enm|stunt|stont}}
** {{desc|en|stunt}}
** {{desc|en|stunt}}

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==Swedish==
==Swedish==

Latest revision as of 17:39, 11 December 2024

See also: Stunt

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /stʌnt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Etymology 1

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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”).

Noun

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stunt (plural stunts)

  1. 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.
  2. (archaic) A 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."
  3. (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Danish: stunt
  • → German: Stunt
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: stunt
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: stunt
Translations
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Verb

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stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)

  1. (intransitive, cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
  2. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
    • 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

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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

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stunt (third-person singular simple present stunts, present participle stunting, simple past and past participle stunted)

  1. (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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Noun

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stunt (plural stunts)

  1. A check in growth.
  2. That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
  3. A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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stunt m (plural stunts, diminutive stuntje n)

  1. stunt

Verb

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stunt

  1. inflection of stunten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Middle English

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Noun

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stunt

  1. Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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From English stunt.

Noun

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stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta or stuntene)

  1. a stunt

Derived terms

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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From English stunt.

Noun

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stunt n (definite singular stuntet, indefinite plural stunt, definite plural stunta)

  1. a stunt

Derived terms

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References

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, stunted; stupid”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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stunt

  1. stupid, foolish
    Synonym: dwæs
  2. (substantive) idiot, fool

Declension

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Declension of stunt — Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative stunt stunt stunt
Accusative stuntne stunte stunt
Genitive stuntes stuntre stuntes
Dative stuntum stuntre stuntum
Instrumental stunte stuntre stunte
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative stunte stunta, stunte stunt
Accusative stunte stunta, stunte stunt
Genitive stuntra stuntra stuntra
Dative stuntum stuntum stuntum
Instrumental stuntum stuntum stuntum
Declension of stunt — Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative stunta stunte stunte
Accusative stuntan stuntan stunte
Genitive stuntan stuntan stuntan
Dative stuntan stuntan stuntan
Instrumental stuntan stuntan stuntan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative stuntan stuntan stuntan
Accusative stuntan stuntan stuntan
Genitive stuntra, stuntena stuntra, stuntena stuntra, stuntena
Dative stuntum stuntum stuntum
Instrumental stuntum stuntum stuntum

Descendants

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English stunt.

Noun

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stunt n

  1. a stunt (in a movie, as often performed by stuntmen)

Declension

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Declension of stunt
nominative genitive
singular indefinite stunt stunts
definite stuntet stuntets
plural indefinite stunt stunts
definite stunten stuntens

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References

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