dun

IPA: dˈʌn

A brownish grey colour.
(countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
An urgent request or demand of payment.
(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
(countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
(archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
A mound or small hill.
A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
a state legislative assembly
a state legislative assembly seat
Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”) [(India, chiefly in the plural) Any of the flat valleys lying parallel to the base of the Himalayas, and between the rise of that mountain mass and the low tertiary ranges known as the sub-Himalayan or Sivalik Hills, or rather between the interior and exterior of these ranges.]

(transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
(transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
(nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do [(African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Cockney, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.]
(nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not. [do not (negative auxiliary)]

Examples of "dun" in Sentences

*lyts da half dun wurk 2 maek it fully dun… moar den fully dun*
Since I've left you all in candy-coated withdrawal, I wanted to return with a thrilling post on * dun dun dun* …
He listened absently to a long dun from the type-writer people, his mind busy with ways and means of finding a job.
(The same letter also warns that Chicago may become *** dun dun dun*** St. Louis with a lake, if The House ceases to exist.)
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.