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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUNNY

a.Deaf; dull of apprehension. [Local. ]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DUNNY

DUNNY Dun "ny, a.

Defn: Deaf; stupid. [Prov. Eng. ] My old dame Joan is something dunny, and will scarce know how to manage. Sir W. Scott.

New American Oxford Dictionary

dunny

dunny |ˈdʌni | ▶noun ( pl. dunnies ) 1 Scottish an underground passage or cellar, especially in a tenement. 2 Austral. /NZ informal a toilet. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (in the sense ‘dung ’): from dialect dunnekin ‘privy ’, probably from dung + archaic slang ken ‘house ’. Sense 1 is perhaps a different word .

Oxford Dictionary

dunny

dunny |ˈdʌni | ▶noun ( pl. dunnies ) 1 Scottish an underground passage or cellar, especially in a tenement. 2 Austral. /NZ informal a toilet. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (in the sense ‘dung ’): from dialect dunnekin ‘privy ’, probably from dung + archaic slang ken ‘house ’. Sense 1 is perhaps a different word .