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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1804, 1901, 1970
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STUNT, v., intr. To bound, bounce (wm., sm.Sc., Rxb. 1971), to walk with a springy bounding step; tr. to stamp (the feet); to bump into (Dmf. 1971).Edb. 1804 J. Aikman Poems (1816) 233:
His feet he on the road fair stunted.Ayr. 1901 G. Douglas Green Shutters v.:
I come stunting out in a bleeze of wrath and slam the yett ahint me!Ayr. 1970:
When the bloke hit him, his heid fair stuntit aff the waa.
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