Dun

/dʌn/ · noun

Meaning

A brownish grey colour..

Definitions by Sense

1. A brownish grey colour.
2. Of a brownish grey colour.
3. (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
4. An urgent request or demand of payment.
5. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
6. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
7. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
8. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

Example Sentences

Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, To cry, hold, hold.

My Miſtres eyes are nothing like the Sunne, Currall is farre more red, then her lips red, If ſnow be white, why then her breſts are dun: If hairs be wiers, black wiers grow on her head: [...]

Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Where is the nobility in these streets paved with greasy carbon and dun ash?

"The truth is, Mr. Curl, I cannot write when I am plagued about trifles; and a tiresome dun this morning put to flight every idea that I had in the world." "Mr. Maynard," said the bookseller, in a solemn tone, "it is very wrong to run in debt."

Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other.

Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.

‘Frank's worried about duns,’ she said as the butler went away.

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• duns
• dunning
• dunned
• doon
• dún

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