stun a OED stunpoll [?f. STONE sb. + POLL sb.1] (1794-). Local evidence shows only attributive and predicative examples. Writers in recent decades have apparently felt that stun has merged with the verb stunned; speech is variable-- [phonetics unavailable]. Cp O Sup2 stunned ppl a 2 'drunk' Aust, N Z (1919, 1933) for sense 2.
1 1981 MAJOR 29 What use to bug me more than anything was when he'd come home to Mom with these stun stories about me. 1989 Evening Telegram 2 Sep. p. 5 [letter] Those so-called educators are so 'stunned' they just can't learn, even after 40 years [of Nfld being in Canada]. 1990 ibid 28 Mar, p. 4 I'm not usually that 'stunned' but it took me a few moments to figure out that I was the person referred to in [a letter to the Editor, March 20].
