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stunned, ppl. a. [f. stun v. + ed1.] 1. Rendered unconscious or dazed, as by a blow, etc.; astounded, bewildered.
1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 733 My stunned ear tingles to the whizzing tide. 1805Southey Madoc ii. xviii. 113 From his shield, The deadening force communicated ran Up his stunn'd arm. 1845Dickens Chimes iii. 96 Trotty..turned his white face here and there, in mute and stunned astonishment. 1868–70Morris Earthly Par. iii. 456 And to her stunned heart came A flash of hope and pain. 2. Austral. and N.Z. slang. Drunk. Cf. stung ppl. a. 2.
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 48 Stunned (adj.), drunk. 1933‘P. Cadey’ Broken Pattern xii. 129 I'm afraid I got a bit stunned... I had one over the odd. 3. Phr. like a stunned mullet [mullet1]: dull, stupefied. Austral. slang.
1953Baker Australia Speaks 267 [Similes] Dullness: (looking) like a stunned mullet. 1963J. O'Grady Things they do to You 147, I returned and lay on the bed like a stunned mullet. 1977Australian 16 May 1 Mr. Hawke said yesterday the Federal Government had responded like a stunned mullet to his acceptance of the proposed Industrial Relations Bureau. |