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stöt

Pronunciation: /støːt/

“stöt” is a Swedish word. Its 14 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a sharp impact (or the resulting shock through something); an impact, a shock, a jolt, a bump, a knock, etc.
  2. a shot (in cue sports)
  3. a thrust, a lunge (with something)
  4. a shock, a jolt (electric shock)
  5. a blast, a blow (sudden, strong blow, on a trumpet, horn, or the like)
  6. a blast (wind blast)
  7. a move (romantic pass)
  8. a heist, a job (burglary)
  9. a tool used for crushing (by pounding)
  10. clean and jerk
  11. a throw, a put (in shot put (kulstötning))
  12. a large surface opening to a mine, a portal
  13. a codger ((mildly eccentric) older man)
  14. stød

Etymology

From Old Norse steytr, from Proto-Germanic *stautiz. The phonological sense is a semantic loan from Danish stød. Said Danish word has also been borrowed directly, making stöt a doublet of stød in Swedish.

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