Dun
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
"The dun and dreary prairie"
noun
(2) Horse of a dull brownish grey color
(3) A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
"She wore dun"
verb
(4) Make a dun color
(5) Cure by salting
"Dun codfish"
(6) Persistently ask for overdue payment
"The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
(7) Treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- a brownish grey colour.
Noun
- A collector of debts.
- “Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours”, G. Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. 18
Verb
- To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- 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.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
Verb
- :
- He dun it before and he dun it again.
- Now, ya dun it!