An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DUNNED
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
Verb
dunned
simple past tense and past participle of dun
Source: Wiktionary
DUN
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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