Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who duns; one employed in soliciting payment of debts.
- To vibrate with a reverberating sound; make a thundering, reverberating noise.
- noun A hollow reverberating sound, as if made by heavy blows from the closed fist on a door; a thundering sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One employed in soliciting the payment of
debts .
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Examples
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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.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"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."
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I dunner how it happen, but it happen des like I tell yer, en de grapes kep 'on a-goin des de same.
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I dunner how it happen, but it happen des like I tell yer, en de grapes kep 'on a-goin des de same.
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"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."
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Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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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 '.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Hog dunner w'ich part un 'im'll season de turnip salad.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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I dunner whar you wuz, but I knows whar you is, Brer Bull-frog, en hit's you en me fer it.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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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.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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