STUNNER

stunner

(noun) an unexpected and amazing event; “the stunner was what happened on Saturday”

smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish

(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

stunner (plural stunners)

(colloquial) Anything that is stunning.

(colloquial, variant spelling "stunna") A woman of stunning beauty (often hyperbolically), a knockout.

(professional wrestling) A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.

(scifi) A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.

A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.

Anagrams

• runnest, runnets

Source: Wiktionary


Stun"ner, n.

1. One who, or that which, stuns.

2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. [Slang] Thackeray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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