Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who duns; one employed in soliciting payment of debts.
- To vibrate with a reverberating sound; make a thundering, reverberating noise.
- n. A hollow reverberating sound, as if made by heavy blows from the closed fist on a door; a thundering sound.
Wiktionary
- n. One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
Examples
“Sometime then, somewhere there, I wrote me hopes and buried the page when I heard Thy voice, ruddery dunner, so loud that none but, and left it to lie till a kissmiss coming.”
“I dunner how it happen, but it happen des like I tell yer, en de grapes kep 'on a-goin des de same.”
“Well, I dunner whe'r you b'lieves in cunj'in er not, -- some er de w'ite folks don't, er says dey don't, -- but de truf er de matter is dat dis yer ole vimya'd is goophered.”
“I dunner whar you wuz, but I knows whar you is, Brer Bull-frog, en hit's you en me fer it.”
“Atter 'long time, de blacksmif he tuck'n die, en w'en he go ter de Good Place de man at de gate dunner who he is, en he can't squeeze in.”
“Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be.”
“Dreckly he feel de bucket hit de water, en dar she sot, but Brer Rabbit he keep mighty still, kaze he dunner w'at minnit gwineter be de nex '.”
“Hog dunner w'ich part un 'im'll season de turnip salad.”
“He sorter speck who de somebody is, but ole Brer Rabbit he cover his tracks so cute dat Brer Fox dunner how ter ketch 'im.”
“He know whar he cum fum, but he dunner whar he gwine.”
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