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Hunt vs Munt - What's the difference?

hunt | munt |

As a proper noun hunt

is for a hunter (for game, birds etc).

As a noun munt is

a black person, usually a man.

As a verb munt is

(australia|slang) to vomit (usually while drunk).

hunt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
    • Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
  • * Tennyson
    • Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
  • * 2010 , Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound (ISBN 1449084354), page 10:
    • State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands.
  • To try to find something; search.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • He after honour hunts , I after love.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • * 2004 , Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women (ISBN 1578601541), page 119:
    • My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
  • * 2011 , Ann Major, Nobody's Child (ISBN 1459271939):
    • What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
    The police are hunting for evidence.
  • To drive; to chase; with down'', ''from'', ''away , etc.
    • to hunt down a criminal
    He was hunted from the parish.
  • To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  • * Addison
    • He hunts a pack of dogs.
  • To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
    • He hunts the woods, or the country.

    Derived terms

    * hunt where the ducks are * that dog won't hunt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of hunting.
  • A hunting expedition.
  • An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).

    • Derived terms

    * treasure hunt

    munt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Derived from umntu , Ndebele for a human being.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A black person, usually a man.
  • * 2006 , Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman , Zebra Press, page 63:
    • Munt'' was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks. I suspect its origin was the word ''umntu , Ndebele for a person or human being
    Zimbabwe English

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, slang) To vomit (usually while drunk).
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