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Audio Help [duhn] Pronunciation Key verb, dunned, dun·ning, noun
Audio Help [duhn] Pronunciation Key verb, dunned, dun·ning, noun –verb (used with object)
–noun
| 1. | to make repeated and insistent demands upon, esp. for the payment of a debt. |
| 2. | a person, esp. a creditor, who duns another. |
| 3. | a demand for payment, esp. a written one. |
[Origin: 1620–30; orig. obscure]
] | Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
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–noun
| 1. | dull, grayish brown. |
| 2. | dark; gloomy. |
| 3. | a dun color. |
| 4. | a dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail. |
| 5. | mayfly. |
| 6. | Angling. dun fly. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME dun(ne), OE dunn; c. OS dun]
] —Related forms
dunness, noun
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| dun 1
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tr.v. dunned, dun·ning, duns To importune (a debtor) for payment: a dunning letter. n.
[Origin unknown.] |
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| dun 2
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n.
[Middle English, from Old English dunn, perhaps of Celtic origin.] |
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dun (v.)
"to insist on payment of debt," c.1626, perhaps related to dunnen "to sound, resound, make a din," or shortened from dunkirk (1602) "privateer," a private vessel licensed to attack enemy ships during wartime, from Dunkirk, French port from which they sailed. Yet another, less likely, theory traces it to a Joe Dun, supposedly a London bailiff famous for catching defaulters.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
dun (adj.)
O.E. dunn "dingy brown, dark-colored," perhaps from Celt. (cf. O.Ir. donn "dark"), from PIE *donnos, *dusnos "dark."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| dun | |
adjective | |
| 1. | of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie" |
noun | |
| 1. | horse of a dull brownish grey color |
| 2. | a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" |
verb | |
| 1. | treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment] |
| 2. | persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone" |
| 3. | cure by salting; "dun codfish" |
| 4. | make a dun color |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Dun
Din\, n. [AS. dyne, dyn; akin to Icel. dynr, and to AS. dynian to resound, Icel. dynja to pour down like hail or rain; cf. Skr. dhuni roaring, a torrent, dhvan to sound. Cf. Dun to ask payment.] Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? --Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. --Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. --Tennyson.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Dun
Dun\, n. [See Dune.] A mound or small hill.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Dun
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Dun
Dun\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning.] [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. ???. See Din.] To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun? --Swift.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Dun
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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