Definition of dun Dun
/dʌˈn/ - [dun] - Du•n
We found 25 definitions of dun from 7 different sources.
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What does dun mean?
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NounPlural: duns |
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| dun - horse of a dull brownish grey color | ||
| riding horse, saddle horse, mount a lightweight horse kept for riding only | ||
| dun - a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" | ||
| greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn | ||
| light brown a brown that is light but unsaturated | ||
Verb |
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| dun - make a dun color | ||
| darken make dark or darker; "darken a room" | ||
| dun - cure by salting; "dun codfish" | ||
| cure prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" | ||
| cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | ||
| dun - persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" | ||
| demand request urgently and forcefully; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager" | ||
| dun - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" | ||
| torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate | ||
| chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, hassle, harass, plague, harry, molest, beset, provoke exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy" | ||
| madden make mad; "His behavior is maddening" | ||
| hamstring cripple by cutting the hamstring | ||
| pester, badger, beleaguer, bug, tease persuade through constant efforts | ||
| persecute, oppress cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union" | ||
Adjectivedun, dunner, dunnest |
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| dun - of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- dun (Noun)
A brownish grey colour. - dun (Noun)
A collector of debts. - dun (Noun)
A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e. g. Dehra Dun. - dun (Noun)
A newly hatched, immature mayfly. - dun (Verb)
To ask or beset a debtor for payment. - dun (Verb)
To harass by continually repeating e. g. a request. - dun (Verb)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. - dun (Adjective)
Of a brownish grey colour.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dun (n.)
A mound or small hill. - dun (v. t.)
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.)
To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. - dun (n.)
One who duns; a dunner. - dun (n.)
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun. - dun (a.)
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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dun
The colour of the coats of some horses: pale with a dark face, mane, back and tail.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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dun
A hill, an eminence.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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dun
An importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial dialect of several counties, signifies DEAF; to dun, then, perhaps may mean to deafen with importunate demands: some derive it from the word DONNEZ, which signifies GIVE. But the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active, and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay, Why do not you DUN him? that is, Why do not you set Dun to attest him? Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII. Dun was also the general name for the hangman, before that of Jack Ketch.
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