stint

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Old English styntan (“make blunt”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta.

Noun [edit]

stint (plural stints)

  1. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
    He had a stint in jail.
  2. limit; bound; restraint; extent
    • South
      God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
  3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
    • Cowper
      His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
Translations [edit]
period in jail

Verb [edit]

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
      O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife [...].
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
    The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
Translations [edit]
to stop, cease, desist
to stop speaking or talking
to be sparing or mean

Etymology 2 [edit]

Origin unknown.

Noun [edit]

stint (plural stints)

  1. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Translations [edit]
wading bird of the genus Calidris

Etymology 3 [edit]

Noun [edit]

stint (plural stints)

  1. Common misspelling of stent (medical device).

Anagrams [edit]

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