dun

Meanings

1. A brownish grey colour.

1. Of a brownish grey colour.

1. A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
2. An urgent request or demand of payment.

1. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
2. To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

1. A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
2. A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

1. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
2. A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.

1. Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
2. Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.

1. To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

1. A mound or small hill.

1. Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.

1. Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).

1. A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
2. A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
3. An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
4. A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
5. A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
6. A surname

1. a state legislative assembly
2. a state legislative assembly seat

Etymology

From Middle English dun, donn, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-West Germanic *duʀn, from Proto-Germanic *duznaz, *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Old Saxon dun (“brown, dark”), Old High German tusin (“ash-gray, dull brown, pale yellow, dark”), Old Norse dunna (“female mallard; duck”). Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Brythonic (compare Middle Welsh dwnn (“dark (red)”)), from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (compare Old Irish donn and Scottish Gaelic donn (“brown”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (compare Old Saxon dosan (“chestnut brown”)). More at dusk.