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Definition dun

Etymology 1

From Middle English dun, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-Germanic *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), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (compare Old Saxon dosan (“chestnut brown”)). More at dusk.

Noun

dun (usually uncountable, plural duns)

A brownish grey colour.

Adjective

dun (not comparable)

Of a brownish grey colour.

Etymology 2

Unknown; perhaps a variant of din. Several sources suggest origin from Joe Dun, the name of a bailiff known for arresting debtors, but this is controversial.

Noun

dun (plural duns)

(countable) A collector of debts.
An urgent request or demand of payment.

Verb

dun (third-person singular simple present duns, present participle dunning, simple past and past participle dunned)

(transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
(transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

Etymology 3

Uncertain; likely from the color.

Noun

dun (plural duns)

(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
(countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

Etymology 4

From Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“fortress”). Cognate with Welsh dinas (“city”).

Noun

dun (plural duns)

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

Etymology 5

See do.

Verb

dun

(nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do
(nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.

Etymology 6

Likely from the color of fish so prepared.

Verb

dun (third-person singular simple present duns, present participle dunning, simple past and past participle dunned)

(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.