Dun

Quick meaning: Dun is a noun meaning A brownish grey colour.

Meaning

A brownish grey colour.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• duns
• dunning
• dunned

Synonyms for dun

Depending on context, synonyms include subimago, claybank, chromatic, torment, tantalize, frustrate.

Antonyms for dun

Common opposites include agreeably, pleasantly, enjoyably.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colored, chromatic, torment, rag, tantalize, crucify.

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