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dun - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.
- noun A horse of this color.
- noun A mayfly in its earliest adult stage.
- noun An fishing fly that imitates such an insect.
- transitive verb To importune (a debtor) for payment.
- noun One that duns.
- noun An importunate demand for payment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a color partaking of brown and black; of a dull-brown color; swarthy.
- Dark; gloomy.
- noun A familiar name for an old horse or jade: used as a quasi-proper name (like
dobbin ). - To make of a dun or dull-brown color.
- Especially To cure, as cod, in such a manner as to impart a dun or brown color. See
dunfish . - To become of a dun color.
- noun One who duns; an importunate creditor, or an agent employed to collect debts.
- noun A demand for the payment of a debt, especially a written one; a dunning-letter: as, to send one's debtor a dun.
- To make a loud noise; din.
- To demand payment of a debt from; press or urge for payment or for fulfilment of an obligation of any kind.
- noun A dun-colored natural or artificial fly used in angling: as, the pale-olive dun, made with a body of hair from the polar bear; goose-dun, with a body of gray goose-pinion; blue dun, with a body of pale mole-fur.
- noun A hill; a mound; a fortified eminence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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.
- verb To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge importunately.
- noun A mound or small hill.
- noun One who duns; a dunner.
- noun An urgent request or demand of payment.
- adjective Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called
hoody , andhoddy . - adjective (Zoöl.) the goosander or merganser.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.
- noun countable A newly hatched, immature
mayfly . - noun countable A collector of debts.
- verb transitive To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- verb transitive To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- verb informal
Eye dialect spelling ofdone : simple past tense and past participle ofdo . - phrase
Eye dialect spelling ofdon't . - noun uncountable A brownish grey colour.
- adjective Of a brownish grey colour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb treat cruelly
- verb cure by salting
- verb make a dun color
- noun horse of a dull brownish grey color
- adjective of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
- noun a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
- verb persistently ask for overdue payment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old English dunn, perhaps of Celtic origin.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Origin unknown.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
See don’t.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
See done.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English dun, dunne, from Old English dunn ("dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black"), from Proto-Germanic *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhūw- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Old Saxon dun ("brown, dark"), Old High German tusin ("ash-gray, dull brown, pale yellow, dark").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Unknown; perhaps a variant of din.
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Examples
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(The same letter also warns that Chicago may become *** dun dun dun*** St. Louis with a lake, if The House ceases to exist.)
unknown title 2009
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(The same letter also warns that Chicago may become *** dun dun dun*** St. Louis with a lake, if The House ceases to exist.)
unknown title 2009
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Since I've left you all in candy-coated withdrawal, I wanted to return with a thrilling post on * dun dun dun* …
Weddingbee 2008
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*lyts da half dun wurk 2 maek it fully dun… moar den fully dun*
Camo-flaj… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
V. Laws of Variation. Specific Characters More Variable Than Generic Characters 1909
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In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
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In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 05 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845
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He listened absently to a long dun from the type-writer people, his mind busy with ways and means of finding a job.
Chapter 26 2010
Related Words
synonyms (118)
Words with the same meaning
- account
- annoy
- apply pressure
- ask
- bay
- bayard
- bedevil
- beige
- beleaguer
- beset
- besiege
- bill
- bill collector
- bill of account
- bill of lading
- blandish
- brown
- brownish
- brownish-yellow
- brunet
- buckskin
- bug
- buttonhole
- cajole
- calico pony
- caliginous
- call
- call in
- check
- chestnut
- chocolate
- cinnamon
- coax
- cocoa
- cocoa-brown
- coffee
- coffee-brown
- collection agent
- credit man
- creditor
- creditress
- dapple-gray
- debtee
- demand payment
- dim
- drab
- dun-brown
- dun-drab
- dunner
- dusk
- dusky
- ecru
- exert pressure
- fawn
- fawn-colored
- fuscous
- gloomy
- gnaw
- gray
- grege
- grizzle
- harass
- hazel
- importune
- invoice
- itemized bill
- khaki
- lurid
- manifest
- mortgage-holder
- mortgagee
- murky
- nag
- nag at
- needle
- note-holder
- nut-brown
- obscure
- olive-brown
- olive-drab
- paint
- painted pony
- pester
- piebald
- pinto
- plague
- ply
- press
- pressure
- push
- reckoning
- roan
- score
- seal
- seal-brown
- send a statement
- sepia
- skewbald
- snuff-colored
- somber
- sorrel
- statement
- swarthy
- tab
- tan
- taupe
- tawny
- tease
- toast
- toast-brown
- umber
- umber-colored
- urge
- walnut
- walnut-brown
- wheedle
- work on
- yellowish-brown
yarb commented on the word dun
They were eternally besetting, dunning, and tormenting me.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 11
September 12, 2008