dun
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Is dun a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.Examples: ""The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world." "Mr. Maynard," said the bookseller, in a solemn tone, "it is very wrong to run in debt.""; "Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other."; "Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours."countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.Examples: "And hath she sent so soon to dun?"; "Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum."transitive
2. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.Examples: "Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now."transitive
noun (English)
1. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.Examples: "Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent."countable
2. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.Examples: "We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake."countable
noun (English)
1. (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.Examples: "Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'."
verb (English)
1. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.Examples: "Now, ya dun it!"; "...a wise old lady exclaimed, "Why Mrs. M. warn't you orful skeerd wunst when you seed a dog fight? [...] an that ere big yaller dog bit orf your baby's hand that minit; in cors he dun it, so now that settles it.""; "“Oh, Because I want their dollar. I don't want Anything they've not got. I never dun. I'm there, and they can pay me if they like. I go nowhere on purpose: I happen by. Sorry there is no cup to give you a drink.[…]"alt-ofinformalnonstandardpronunciation-spelling
2. (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do not.Examples: "Fwhere's he come from, I dun'no'. French or English, I dun'no'. But a gintleman born, I know."alt-ofinformalnonstandardpronunciation-spelling
verb (English)
1. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.Examples: "Dun-fish are of a superior quality for the table, and are cured in such a manner as to give them a dun or brownish color. Fish for dunning are caught early in spring, and sometimes February, at the Isle of Shoals."datedtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary