Stunt vs Stint - What's the difference?
stunt | stint |
A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
(archaic) skill
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
To check or hinder the growth or development of.
(cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
(intransitive, slang, AAVE) To show off; to posture.
* Hussein Fatal (Bruce Washington), I Don't Like That (rap song)
A check in growth.
That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
* {{quote-news
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limit; bound; restraint; extent
* South
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
* Cowper
(archaic) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
* Late 14th century , :
To be sparing or mean.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
* Woodward
* Law
To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
* J. H. Walsh
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris . Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
As nouns the difference between stunt and stint
is that stunt is a daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills while stint is a period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.As verbs the difference between stunt and stint
is that stunt is to check or hinder the growth or development of while stint is to stop (an action); cease, desist.stunt
English
Etymology 1
Unknown.Noun
(en noun)- "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."
Derived terms
* publicity stunt * stunt double * stuntman * stuntperson * stuntwomanEtymology 2
From dialectal . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- I don't like his style, and he always stuntin' .
Noun
(en noun)stint
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He had a stint in jail.
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- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
Verb
(en verb)- O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife
- And stint thou too, I pray thee.
- The damsel stinted in her song.
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
- I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
- She stints them in their meals.
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
