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DUN
dun
(adjective) of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; “the dun and dreary prairie”
dun
(noun) horse of a dull brownish grey color
dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn
(noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; “she wore dun”
dun
(verb) make a dun color
dun
(verb) cure by salting; “dun codfish”
dun
(verb) persistently ask for overdue payment; “The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone”
torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate
(verb) treat cruelly; “The children tormented the stuttering teacher”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
dun (usually uncountable, plural duns)
A brownish grey colour.
Adjective
dun (not comparable)
Of a brownish grey colour.
Etymology 2
Noun
dun (plural duns)
(countable) A collector of debts.
An urgent request or demand of payment.
Verb
dun (third-person singular simple present duns, present participle dunning, simple past and past participle dunned)
(transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
Etymology 3
Uncertain; likely from the color.
Noun
dun (plural duns)
(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
(countable, angling) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
Synonyms
• subimago
Etymology 4
Noun
dun (plural duns)
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
(archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
Etymology 5
Verb
dun
(non-standard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do
(non-standard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
Etymology 6
Likely from the color of fish so prepared.
Verb
dun (third-person singular simple present duns, present participle dunning, simple past and past participle dunned)
(transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
Etymology 7
Noun
dun (plural duns)
A mound or small hill.
Etymology 8
Imitative.
Interjection
dun
(humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.
Anagrams
• DNU, und
Proper noun
Dun
A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
A river in Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
Anagrams
• DNU, und
Source: Wiktionary
Dun, n. Etym: [See Dune.]
Definition: A mound or small hill.
Dun, v. t.
Definition: To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
Dun, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning.] Etym: [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. Din.]
Definition: To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.
Dun, n.
1. One who duns; a dunner. To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot.
2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
Dun, a. Etym: [AS. dunn. of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. & Gael. donn.]
Definition: Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.
– Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
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