mun

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  1. The mouth. One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. Popular rime, quoted by Halliwell.
  2. A variant of moun, maun — that is, must. [Now only provincial.] A gentleman mun show himself like a gentleman. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1.
  3. One of a band of dissolute young fellows who, in the reign of Queen Anne, swaggered by night in the streets of London, breaking windows, overturning sedans, beating men, and offering rude caresses to women; a Mohawk.
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  • Terror had acquired a kind of mun-danity, had become an atmosphere, a medium in which we just went on functioning, and did what we were supposed to do until somehow our Death would get to us. —  Port Eternity
  • In the early ninth century, the caliph Al-Ma'mun ordered translations of many Greek mathematical works and at least one Sanskrit work (generally presumed to be Brahmagupta's), thus giving rise to the rich tradition of, was translated into Arabic by Qusta ibn Luqa (820-912). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Bangsa ini pernah akan berdiri tegak, na - mun sekarang harus tertatih dan kembali Apa arti kita hidup di tanah surgawi ini? merintih. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • NEW YORK (AP) It's looking more and more like investment banker Lehman (LEE'-mun) Brothers is headed for bankruptcy.
  • NEW YORK (AP) There are more signs that Lehman (LEE'-mun) Brothers is headed for a fall.
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  1. from Middle English mun, prob. from Swedish mun = Danish mund = German mund = Dutch mond = English mouth: see mouth.
  2. Origin not ascertained.
 

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