different between brunt vs brunet

English

Etymology

From Middle English brunt, bront, from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”), or bruna (“to rush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

brunt (plural brunts)

1. The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
   • 1862, Arthur Young, John Chalmers Morton, The Farmer's Calendar

     There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
2. The major part of something; the bulk.

Translations

Verb

brunt (third-person singular simple present brunts, present participle brunting, simple past and past participle brunted)

1. (transitive) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 7:

     "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?"

     "What if they do? We must brunt it."

   We brunted the storm.

Anagrams

• burnt

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

brunt

1. neuter singular of brun

Swedish

Adjective

brunt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of brun.

English

Etymology

From French brunet. Compare also Middle English brunet, burnet (“brown”), from Old French brunet, which is the same word.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

brunet (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or black.
2. (rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair.

Noun

brunet (plural brunets)

1. (rare) A man or boy with brown or black hair.

Usage notes

Brunet is the masculine form of brunette. It is rarely used.

Anagrams

• Burnet, Butner, beturn, bunter, burnet

Danish

Adjective

brunet

1. sugared, made brown

Inflection

Verb

brunet

1. past participle of brune

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bry?n?t/
• Hyphenation: bru?net
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

brunet (not comparable)

1. (now uncommon) brunette, having brown hair

Inflection

Noun

brunet f (plural brunetten, diminutive brunetje n)

1. Alternative form of brunette.

Middle English

Noun

brunet

1. Alternative form of burnet

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bru.n?t/

Noun

brunet m pers (diminutive brunecik, feminine brunetka)

1. brunet (dark haired man)

Declension

Antonyms

• blondyn

Further reading

• brunet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French brunet.

Adjective

brunet m or n (feminine singular brunet?, masculine plural brune?i, feminine and neuter plural brunete)

1. brunette

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?brunet]

Noun

brunet m

1. brunet (dark haired man)

Declension

Related terms

• bruneta
• brunetka

Further reading

• brunet in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk