dun

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  1. transitive verb To importune (a debtor) for payment: a dunning letter.
  2. noun One that duns.
  3. noun An importunate demand for payment.
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  • "It looks like it's smoother there, but just around the word dun." —  Scion of Cyador
  • It would pick up every detail of the conversation and the replay later would be much more effective than Desoga's memory alone, however well trained. —  Spoor of the Antis
  • The Ventimiglians, to the east, looked like a dun-flecked black glacier making an inexorable journey westward. —  The Swordbearer
  • "There's more space around the word dun, too." —  Scion of Cyador
  • - dun, dun, dun - The CW. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Middle English, from Old English dunn, perhaps of Celtic origin.

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  1. from Middle English dunne, donne, dun, from Anglo-Saxon dun, dunn, from Welsh dwn, dun, dusky, swarthy. = Irish and Gaelic donn, dun, brown. Not related to G. dunkel, dark. Hence dunling, dunnock, donkey.
  2. from Middle English dunnen, donnen, make of a dun color, from Anglo-Saxon dunnian, darken, obscure (as the moon does the stars), from dun, dunn, dark, dun: see dun, a.
  3. from Middle English dunnen, make a loud noise (verbal noun dunning, a loud noise), variant of dynnen, dynning, dinnen, etc., earlier Middle English dunien, from Anglo-Saxon dynian, make a din. Dun is thus another form of din, v. Cf. dunt = dint, dull = dill, etc. The use of the word as in II. is modern, and may be of other origin.
  4. from dun, v.
  5. Of Celtic origin; Irish dūn = Gaelic dūn, a hill, fort, town, Welsh din, a hill-fort; later Anglo-Saxon dūn, English down, a hill: see down.
 

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