dun

FREQ #19966

n. 催促者, 讨债者, 催债 v. 催讨 a. 暗褐色的, 微暗的

发音

US /dʌn/
其它 /dʊn/

词形变化

duns 复数 duns 三单 dunning 现在分词 dunned 过去式 dunned 过去分词 dunnest

别名

doon dún

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A brownish grey colour.

    不可数
  2. 1.

    A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.

    可数
  3. 2.

    An urgent request or demand of payment.

  4. 1.

    A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.

    可数
  5. 2.

    A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

    可数
  6. 1.

    An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.

  7. 2.

    A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.

  8. 1.

    A mound or small hill.

  9. 1.

    Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).

v.
  1. 1.

    To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

    及物

    Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.

  2. 2.

    To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

    及物
  3. 1.

    Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.

    非正式

    Now, ya dun it!

  4. 2.

    Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.

    非正式
  5. 1.

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

    过时 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a brownish grey colour.

    暗褐色的

interj.
  1. 1.

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

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

fawn

上位词 3

mount riding horse saddle horse
动词

同义词 5

rag torment crucify frustrate bedevil

上位词 10

harry cure demand plague provoke hassle chevy harass darken molest

下位词 9

bug tease badger madden pester persecute oppress hamstring beleaguer
形容词

近义相关 1

chromatic

相关短语

dun dun dun crow dun diver dun dun dun dun duns dun divers dun crows dun comma dun commas Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall Dehra Dun Bridge of Dun Barnby Dun

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary