stunt

See also: Stunt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʌnt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).

Noun

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) 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

• publicity stunt

Derived terms

• card stunt
• media stunt
• publicity stunt
• stunt casting
• stunt cock
• stunt double
• stuntman
• stuntperson
• stuntwoman
• sweeps stunt

 

Descendants

• → Danish: stunt
• → German: Stunt
• → Norwegian Bokmål: stunt
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: stunt

Translations

dangerous feat

• Bulgarian: каскада f (kaskada)
• Catalan: acrobàcia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特技 (zh) (tèjì), 危险举动

• Czech: kaskadérství n
• Danish: stunt n
• Finnish: temppu (fi), stuntti (fi)
• French: cascade (fr) f, acrobatie (fr) f, coup publicitaire m
• German: Stunt (de) m, Kunststück (de) n, Trick (de) m, Nummer (de) f, Einlage (de) f, Gag (de) m
• Hungarian: mutatvány (hu)
• Italian: acrobazia (it) f
• Japanese: 無茶 (ja) (mucha)
• Latin: factus periculosus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stunt (no) n

  Nynorsk: stunt n

• Occitan: espet (oc), proesa (oc) f, acrobacia (oc) f, cascada (oc) f
• Polish: wyczyn kaskaderski m, akrobacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: proeza (pt) f
• Romanian: cascadorie (ro) f, acrobație (ro) f
• Russian: трюк (ru) m (trjuk)
• Scottish Gaelic: cleas m
• Spanish: proeza (es) f
• Swedish: stunt (sv) n
• Turkish: marifet (tr), numara (tr)

Verb

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.
   • 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.

Translations

cheerleading: to perform a stunt

• Finnish: stuntata

to show off, posture

• Finnish: näyttää (fi)
• Russian: понтоваться (ru) impf (pontovatʹsja)

Etymology 2

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

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.

Translations

to check or hinder the growth or development

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阻碍 (zh) (zǔ'ài)

• Finnish: ehkäistä kasvua, estää kehitys; torpata (fi) (colloquial)
• German: verkümmern (de), hemmen (de), verkümmern lassen, bremsen (de), im Wachstum hindern
• Occitan: inibir, enebir (oc), impedir
• Russian: подавлять (ru) impf (podavljatʹ)

Noun

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

• Nutts

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

stunt m (plural stunts, diminutive stuntje n)

1. stunt

Verb

stunt

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

Middle English

Noun

stunt

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English stunt.

Noun

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

1. a stunt

Derived terms

• stuntmann

References

• “stunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English stunt.

Noun

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

1. a stunt

Derived terms

• stuntmann

References

• “stunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stunt/

Adjective

stunt

1. stupid, foolish

   Synonym: dwæs

2. (substantive) idiot, fool

Declension

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

• Middle English: stunt, stont
  • English: stunt

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English stunt.

Noun

stunt n

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

Declension

Declension of stunt
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stunt	stuntet	stunt	stunten
Genitive	stunts	stuntets	stunts	stuntens

See also

• stuntman

References

• stunt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stunt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)