Dictionary Entry
dun
dun is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mound or small hill. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A mound or small hill.
- 2transitive verb
To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
- 3transitive/intransitive verb
To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
- 4noun
One who duns; a dunner.
- 5noun
An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
- 6adjective
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
- 7noun
horse of a dull brownish grey color
- 8noun
a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
"she wore dun"
Synonyms
- 9verb
make a dun color
- 10verb
cure by salting
"dun codfish"
- 11verb
persistently ask for overdue payment
"The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
- 12verb
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
- 13adjective
of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
"the dun and dreary prairie"
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