stunt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
    — 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. A check in growth. countable,uncountable
  3. An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
  4. That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing. countable
  5. Ellipsis of publicity stunt. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  6. A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber. countable
  7. A skill. archaic
    — "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."
  8. A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
动词 v.
  1. To perform a stunt. intransitive
  2. To check or hinder the growth or development of. transitive
    — Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
  3. To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables. intransitive,slang
    — Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt.

词形变化

stunts plural stunts present,singular,third-person stunting participle,present stunted participle,past stunted past stunts present,singular,third-person stunting participle,present stunted participle,past stunted past stunts plural

词汇关系

下位词
publicity stunt
衍生词
card stunt media stunt outstunt publicity stunt stunt casting stunt cock stunt double stunter stuntfest stuntlike stuntman stuntperson stuntwoman stuntwork sweeps stunt yellow sorghum stunt stuntness

词源

词源 1
Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
词源 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.
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