Dun

Noun

 * 1)  A brownish grey colour.

Adjective

 * 1) Of a brownish grey colour.

Noun

 * 1)  A collector of debts.
 * 2) *1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. 18:
 * Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.
 * 1) *1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 102:
 * ‘Frank's worried about duns,’ she said as the butler went away.

Verb

 * 1)  To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
 * 2) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
 * 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.
 * 1)  To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

Noun

 * 1) A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

Noun

 * 1)  A newly hatched, immature mayfly

Verb

 * He dun it before and he dun it again.
 * Now, ya dun it!
 * Now, ya dun it!

Thesaurus
account, annoy, apply pressure, bay, bayard, bedevil, beige, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bill, bill collector, bill of account, bill of lading, blandish, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin, bug, buttonhole, cajole, calico pony, caliginous, call, call in, check, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, collection agent, credit man, creditor, creditress, dapple-gray, debtee, demand payment, dim, drab, dun-brown, dun-drab, dunner, dusk, dusky, ecru, exert pressure, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, gloomy, gnaw, gray, grege, grizzle, harass, hazel, importune, invoice, itemized bill, khaki, lurid, manifest, mortgage-holder, mortgagee, murky, nag, nag at, needle, note-holder, nut-brown, obscure, olive-brown, olive-drab, paint, painted pony, pester, piebald, pinto, plague, ply, press, pressure, push, reckoning, roan, score, seal, seal-brown, send a statement, sepia, skewbald, snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, statement, tab, tan, taupe, tawny, tease, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, urge, walnut, walnut-brown, wheedle, work on, yellowish-brown

Etymology 1
From dun:, dunne:, from  dunn:, from, from. Cognate with dun:,  tusin:.

Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (cf. Old Welsh dwnn: 'dark (red)'), from (cf. Old Irish donn:), from  (cf. Old Saxon dosan: 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.

Etymology 2

 * perhaps a variant of din:.

Pronunciation
The “u” is long, so the word is also spelled “doon”.

Etymology 5
Identical to done.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: сиво-кафяв
 * Finnish:
 * French: grisâtre
 * Greek: [kastaˈno̞fe̞ˌo̞]
 * Icelandic:


 * Japanese: (こげちゃいろ, kogechairo)
 * Norwegian:
 * Serbian:
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: сиво-кафяв
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: grijsbruin


 * Finnish: harmaanruskea
 * Norwegian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Derived terms

 * dun-bar

Noun

 * Finnish: ,

Verb

 * Finnish:, , ,


 * Japanese: 借金の催促 (しゃっきんのさいそく, shakkin no saisoku)

Derived terms

 * dun letter

Anagrams

 * DNU

Etymology
From dúnn:.

Noun

 * 1) down (soft, immature feathers)

Etymology
From *thunni, from.

Adjective

 * 1) thin, slender
 * 2) sparse
 * 3)  runny

Antonyms

 * dicht, dik

Derived terms

 * dunnen, verdunnen

Etymology
From contraction of preposition de: + masculine article un:

Contraction

 * 1) of a, of one; from a, from one

Etymology
From, from.

Noun
dun


 * 1) leaf

Pinyin syllable
dun



Etymology
Apparently from a Celtic source; compare Old Irish dun:, Welsh din:.

Noun

 * 1) hill, mountain

Derived terms

 * ofdune

Descendants

 * English: down

Noun

 * 1) down, what grows on young birds

Related terms

 * dunjacka
 * dunkudde
 * duntäcke
 * ejderdun