English-Thai Dictionary

dun

ADJ สีน้ำตาล มืด  สีน้ำตาล เทา  donkey-gray brownish se-nam-tan-mued

 

dun

N สีน้ำตาล มืด  สีน้ำตาล เทา  donkey-gray brownish se-nam-tan-mued

 

dun

VT ทวงหนี้  ท วงเงิน  sue bill invoice tuang-ne

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUN

a. 1. Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
2. Dark; gloomy.
In the dun air sublime.

 

DUN

v.t.To cure, as fish, in a manner to give them a dun color. [See Dunning. ]

 

DUN

v.t.[See Din. ] 1. Literally, to clamor for payment of a debt. Hence, to urge for payment; to demand a debt in a pressing manner; to urge for payment with importunity. But in common usage, dun is often used in a milder sense, and signifies to call for, or ask for payment.
2. To urge importunately, in a general sense, but not an elegant word.

 

DUN

n. 1. An importunate creditor who urges for payment.
2. An urgent request or demand of payment in writing; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
3. An eminence or mound. [See Down and Town. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DUN

Dun, n. Etym: [See Dune. ]

 

Defn: A mound or small hill.

 

DUN

DUN Dun, v. t.

 

Defn: To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

 

DUN

Dun, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunning. ] Etym: [AS. dyne noise, dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise, thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. Din. ]

 

Defn: To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately. Hath she sent so soon to dun Swift.

 

DUN

DUN Dun, n.

 

1. One who duns; a dunner. To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun. Arbuthnot.

 

2. An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.

 

DUN

Dun, a. Etym: [AS. dunn. of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. & Gael. donn.]

 

Defn: Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble.Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dun

dun 1 |dən dən | ▶adjective of a dull grayish-brown color: a dun cow. • literary dark; dusky: when the dun evening comes. ▶noun 1 a dull grayish-brown color. 2 a thing that is dun in color, in particular: • a horse with a sandy or sandy-gray coat, black mane, tail, and lower legs, and a dark dorsal stripe. • a sub-adult mayfly, which has drab coloration and opaque wings. • an artificial fishing fly imitating this. ORIGIN Old English dun, dunn, of Germanic origin; probably related to dusk .

 

dun

dun 2 |dən dən | ▶verb ( duns, dunning , dunned ) [ with obj. ] make persistent demands on (someone ), esp. for payment of a debt: they would very likely start dunning you for payment of your taxes | (as adj. dunning ) : she received two dunning letters from the bank. ▶noun archaic a debt collector or an insistent creditor. • a demand for payment. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (as a noun ): from obsolete Dunkirk privateer, from the French port of Dunkirk .

 

dun

dun 3 |dʌn | ▶noun Archaeology a stone-built fortified settlement in Scotland or Ireland, of a kind built from the late Iron Age to the early Middle Ages. The word is a frequent place-name element in Scotland and Ireland. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Irish dún, Scottish Gaelic dùn ‘hill or hill fort ’.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dun

dun 1 |dʌn | ▶adjective of a dull greyish-brown colour: a dun cow. • literary dark or dusky: when the dun evening comes. ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] a dull greyish-brown colour. 2 a horse with a sandy or sandy-grey coat, black mane, tail, and lower legs, and a dark dorsal stripe. 3 a subadult mayfly, which has drab coloration and opaque wings. • an artificial fishing fly made to resemble a dun. ORIGIN Old English dun, dunn, of Germanic origin; probably related to dusk .

 

dun

dun 2 |dʌn | ▶verb ( duns, dunning, dunned ) [ with obj. ] make persistent demands on (someone ), especially for payment of a debt. ▶noun archaic a debt collector or an insistent creditor. • a demand for payment. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (as a noun ): from obsolete Dunkirk privateer, from the French port of Dunkirk .

 

dun

dun 3 |dʌn | ▶noun Archaeology a stone-built fortified settlement in Scotland or Ireland, of a kind built from the late Iron Age to the early Middle Ages. The word is a frequent place-name element in Scotland and Ireland. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Irish dún, Scottish Gaelic dùn ‘hill or hill fort ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dun

dun 1 adjective a dun cow: grayish-brown, brownish, mousy, muddy, khaki, umber.

 

dun

dun 2 verb you can't dun me for her debts: importune, press, plague, pester, nag, harass, hound, badger, hassle, bug.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dun

dun 1 adjective the typical dun coat of a wild horse: greyish-brown, brownish, dun-coloured, mud-coloured, mouse-coloured, mousy, muddy, khaki, umber.

 

dun

dun 2 verb he was constantly being dunned for the rent: importune, solicit, petition, press, pressurize, plague, pester, nag, harass, hound, badger, beset; N. English mither; informal hassle, bug.

 

Duden Dictionary

dun

dun Adjektiv landschaftlich |d u n |aus dem Niederdeutschen < mittelniederdeutsch dun, ursprünglich = geschwollen betrunken dun sein

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dun

dun 1 /dʌn /動詞 ～s ; ～ned ; ～ning 他動詞 【借金の支払いを 】…にしつこく催促する «for » ; …にしつこくつきまとう .名詞 C 借金取り ; 借金の催促 .

 

dun

dun 2 名詞 1 U くすんだ灰褐色 .2 C くすんだ灰褐色の馬 .形容詞 くすんだ灰褐色の ; 陰うつな (色の ).

 

dun

dun 3 〖擬音語 〗名詞 C (音楽などの )ドンドンいう音 .