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dun

a demand for payment
Not to be confused with:
done – finished: all done for the day; cooked completely: Soup’s done.
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dun 1

 (dŭn)
tr.v. dunned, dun·ning, duns
To importune (a debtor) for payment: a dunning letter.
n.
1. One that duns.
2. An importunate demand for payment.

[Origin unknown.]

dun 2

 (dŭn)
n.
1. An almost neutral brownish gray to dull grayish brown.
2. A horse of this color.
3.
a. A mayfly in its first winged stage.
b. An fishing fly that imitates such an insect.

[Middle English, from Old English dunn, perhaps of Celtic origin.]
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dun

(dʌn)
vb, duns, dunning or dunned
(Banking & Finance) (tr) to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt
n
1. (Professions) a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt
2. (Banking & Finance) a demand for payment, esp one in writing
[C17: of unknown origin]

dun

(dʌn)
n
1. (Colours) a brownish-grey colour
2. (Colours) a horse of this colour
3. (Angling) angling
a. an immature adult mayfly (the subimago), esp one of the genus Ephemera
b. an artificial fly imitating this or a similar fly
adj, dunner or dunnest
4. (Colours) of a dun colour
5. dark and gloomy
[Old English dunn; related to Old Norse dunna wild duck, Middle Irish doun dark; see dusk]
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dun1

(dʌn)

v. dunned, dun•ning,
n. v.t.
1. to make repeated demands upon, esp. for the payment of a debt.
n.
2. a person, esp. a creditor, who duns another.
3. a demand for payment, esp. a written one.
[1620–30; orig. obscure]

dun2

(dʌn)

adj.
1. dull grayish brown or grayish yellow.
2. dark; gloomy.
n.
3. a dun color.
4. a dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail.
5. mayfly.
[before 1000; Middle English dun(ne), Old English dunn]
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dun


Past participle: dunned
Gerund: dunning

Imperative
dun
dun
Present
I dun
you dun
he/she/it duns
we dun
you dun
they dun
Preterite
I dunned
you dunned
he/she/it dunned
we dunned
you dunned
they dunned
Present Continuous
I am dunning
you are dunning
he/she/it is dunning
we are dunning
you are dunning
they are dunning
Present Perfect
I have dunned
you have dunned
he/she/it has dunned
we have dunned
you have dunned
they have dunned
Past Continuous
I was dunning
you were dunning
he/she/it was dunning
we were dunning
you were dunning
they were dunning
Past Perfect
I had dunned
you had dunned
he/she/it had dunned
we had dunned
you had dunned
they had dunned
Future
I will dun
you will dun
he/she/it will dun
we will dun
you will dun
they will dun
Future Perfect
I will have dunned
you will have dunned
he/she/it will have dunned
we will have dunned
you will have dunned
they will have dunned
Future Continuous
I will be dunning
you will be dunning
he/she/it will be dunning
we will be dunning
you will be dunning
they will be dunning
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been dunning
you have been dunning
he/she/it has been dunning
we have been dunning
you have been dunning
they have been dunning
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been dunning
you will have been dunning
he/she/it will have been dunning
we will have been dunning
you will have been dunning
they will have been dunning
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been dunning
you had been dunning
he/she/it had been dunning
we had been dunning
you had been dunning
they had been dunning
Conditional
I would dun
you would dun
he/she/it would dun
we would dun
you would dun
they would dun
Past Conditional
I would have dunned
you would have dunned
he/she/it would have dunned
we would have dunned
you would have dunned
they would have dunned
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.dun - horse of a dull brownish grey colordun - horse of a dull brownish grey color
mount, riding horse, saddle horse - a lightweight horse kept for riding only
2.dun - a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun"
light brown - a brown that is light but unsaturated
Verb1.dun - treat cruellydun - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
madden - drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves
beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke - annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
hamstring - make ineffective or powerless; "The teachers were hamstrung by the overly rigid schedules"
badger, beleaguer, bug, pester, tease - annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
persecute, oppress - cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
2.dun - persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
demand - request urgently and forcefully; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager"
3.dun - cure by salting; "dun codfish"
cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
cure - prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
4.dun - make a dun color
darken - make dark or darker; "darken a room"
Adj.1.dun - of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun and dreary prairie"
chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue
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dun

noun & adjective muddy coloured, khaki, brownish, mousy, greyish-brown her dun mare see shades of brown
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Translations
šedohnědý
perijävelkoja
gråbrungråbrunt

dun

1 [dʌn] ADJpardo

dun

2 [dʌn] VT to dun sbapremiar a algn para que pague lo que debe (fig) → dar la lata a algn
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dun

[ˈdʌn] adj (= grey-brown) → brun grisâtre
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dun

1
adjgraubraun
nGraubraun nt

dun

2
vtmahnen; to dun somebody for paymentbei jdm eine Zahlung anmahnen
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dun

[dʌn] adjbigio/a, grigiastro/a
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References in classic literature ?
In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
This is the Leabhar Na h-Uidhre, or Book of the Dun Cow.
Besides all this, he dearly loved the longbow, and a sly jaunt in the forest when the moon was full and the dun deer in season; so that the King's rangers kept a shrewd eye upon him and his doings, for Arthur a Bland's house was apt to have aplenty of meat in it that was more like venison than the law allowed.
A light snow was falling as they descended at the door, and in the morning, when Dorothea passed from her dressing-room avenue the blue-green boudoir that we know of, she saw the long avenue of limes lifting their trunks from a white earth, and spreading white branches against the dun and motionless sky.
So the tanner departed joyfully upon his errand, but much more interested in the dun deer of the forest than in any two-legged rovers therein.
Their color is a light gray, or rather dun, slightly spotted with white; and they have small horns like those of the deer, which they never shed.
"Did you ever see a dun, my dear; or a bailiff and his man?
We cannot keep the gold of yesterday; To-day's dun clouds we cannot roll away.
The ripe hue of the red and dun kine absorbed the evening sunlight, which the white-coated animals returned to the eye in rays almost dazzling, even at the distant elevation on which she stood.
At last, after what seemed months, and may, I now realize, have been years, we came in sight of the dun escarpment which buttressed the foothills of Sari.
"Dun no, Missis," said the image, with a grin that showed all her teeth.
Those who have visited the Zetland Islands, are familiar with the description of castles called by the inhabitants Burghs; and by the Highlanders for they are also to be found both in the Western Isles and on the mainland Duns. Pennant has engraved a view of the famous Dun-Dornadilla in Glenelg; and there are many others, all of them built after a peculiar mode of architecture, which argues a people in the most primitive state of society.