| 单词 | to get the dunt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get the dunt Scottish. to get the dunt: to be rendered useless or inactive; esp. to be dismissed or rejected from a job or position. Also to give (a person) the (heavy) dunt: to get rid of, esp. to dismiss from a job or position. Sc. National Dict. records to get the dunt in the sense ‘to be dismissed’ in Aberdeenshire in 1950. ΚΠ 1929 St. Andrews Citizen 9 Feb. 9/3 Their inspiration's got the dunt, Twa dune auld footers. 1985 M. Munro Patter 33 Is it no time ye were giein that wee toerag the heavy dunt? 1998 N. Harper Spik o the Place 43 That's me hame early, petal. I've got the dunt. 2008 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 16 Sept. 18 I'll give him till New Year before he gets the dunt. 2015 @AlanTasker 21 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) He left, he wasn't given the dunt. < as lemmas |
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