Dun Definition

dŭn

verb

To ask (a debtor) insistently or repeatedly for payment.

Webster's New World

To annoy constantly.

Webster's New World

To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

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(informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: simple past tense and past participle of do.

He dun it before and he dun it again.

Now, ya dun it!

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To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

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Synonyms:

noun

A dun horse.

Webster's New World

A dull grayish-brown color.

Webster's New World

A person who duns.

Webster's New World

An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.

American Heritage

An insistent demand, esp. for payment of a debt.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

adjective

Dull grayish-brown.

Webster's New World

Of a brownish grey colour.

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contraction

Eye dialect spelling of don't.

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interjection

(humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

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Other Word Forms of Dun

Singular:

dun

Plural:

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”).

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Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (cf. Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from Proto-Celtic *dusno (cf. Old Irish donn), from Proto-Indo-European *dwos (cf. Old Saxon dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.

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Middle English from Old English dunn perhaps of Celtic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Unknown; perhaps a variant of din.

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Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
See don’t.

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See done.

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See dune.

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Imitative.

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