名詞 · 1

词源

源自中古英語 dun、dunne,源自古英語 dunn (“暗褐色,樹皮色,黑褐色”),源自原始日耳曼語 *dusnaz (“褐色,黃色”),源自原始印歐語 *dʰewh₂- (“冒煙,捲起塵埃”)。與古撒克遜語 dun (“褐色,暗”)、古高地德語 tusin (“灰色,暗褐色,淡黃色,暗”)、古諾爾斯語 dunna (“鴨,雌鴨”)同源。 也可能派生自布立吞亞支(對比中古威爾士語 dwnn (“暗(紅色)”)),源自原始凱爾特語 *dusnos(對比古愛爾蘭語 donn),源自原始印歐語 *dʰews-(對比古撒克遜語 dosan (“栗棕色”))。參見dusk。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 暗褐色

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形容詞 · 2

词源

源自中古英語 dun、dunne,源自古英語 dunn (“暗褐色,樹皮色,黑褐色”),源自原始日耳曼語 *dusnaz (“褐色,黃色”),源自原始印歐語 *dʰewh₂- (“冒煙,捲起塵埃”)。與古撒克遜語 dun (“褐色,暗”)、古高地德語 tusin (“灰色,暗褐色,淡黃色,暗”)、古諾爾斯語 dunna (“鴨,雌鴨”)同源。 也可能派生自布立吞亞支(對比中古威爾士語 dwnn (“暗(紅色)”)),源自原始凱爾特語 *dusnos(對比古愛爾蘭語 donn),源自原始印歐語 *dʰews-(對比古撒克遜語 dosan (“栗棕色”))。參見dusk。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 暗褐色的

    Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, To cry, hold, hold.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 134, column 2, lines 48–49:
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名詞 · 3

词源

未知;可能是din的變體。多個來源認為源自 Joe Dun,一名因逮捕追債者而出名的執達吏之名,不過這個說法有爭議。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 討債人,追債人

    countable

    Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other.

    1889 [1712], John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull, London: Cassell & Co., →OCLC, page 71:

    Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.

    1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. 18:

    ‘Frank's worried about duns,’ she said as the butler went away.

    1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 102:
  2. 緊急要求支付

    Miss Hoppin received a dun for volume 9 1840–1 which Mr. James McConnell, (who now pays the above) is sure was paid.

    1842, A.B.G., “Errata”, in Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate, volume 13, →OCLC, page 251:
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動詞 · 4

词源

未知;可能是din的變體。多個來源認為源自 Joe Dun,一名因逮捕追債者而出名的執達吏之名,不過這個說法有爭議。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 討債

    transitive

    And hath she sent so soon to dun?

    1768,Jonathan Swift,The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift,London:C. Bathurst,→OCLC,「Miscellanies in Verse」,309頁:

    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.

    1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
  2. 不停重複(要求等)來騷擾

    transitive

    Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.

    1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 107:
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名詞 · 5

词源

不確定;可能來自其顏色。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 蜉蝣的亞成蟲

    countable

    Also, duns are dull and generally sober colored, whilst spinners are more brightly colored and shining and their wings are clear and transparent.

    1966, John Harris, An Angler's Entomology, New York: Barnes, →OCLC, page 16:
  2. 一種類似蜉蝣亞成蟲的擬餌

    countable · 垂釣

    We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake.

    1676, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler. Being Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, London: Richard Marriott, and Henry Brome, →OCLC, March, page 59:
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名詞 · 6

词源

源自愛爾蘭語 dún 或 蘇格蘭蓋爾語 dùn,源自原始凱爾特語 *dūnom (“要塞,堡壘”)。與威爾士語 dinas (“城市”)同源。town 的同源對似詞。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 古代或中世紀的堡壘、要塞;尤指在蘇格蘭或愛爾蘭的山丘要塞。

    Pampedun, or Pandon, was probably a place of residence from the earliest times; its sheltered situation for boats, and proximity to the ancient way over the river, protected perhaps by a dun or camp, on the height above [...] possibly gave origin to the ancient name of the place, Pampedun, from the British pant, a hollow, and dun, a fort or camp, Pant-y-dun.

    1858, Henry MacLauchlan, Memoir written during a survey of the Roman Wall, through the counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, in the years 1852-1854, London: Printed for private circulation, →OCLC, page 9:
  2. 奧克尼、設得蘭或蘇格蘭的一種圓形石屋

    Smaller than the broch was the dun, another type of stone-built 'roundhouse'.

    2013, T.J. Clarkson, The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN:
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動詞 · 7

词源

參見do。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. done的視覺方言拼法。: do 的過去分詞

    done、do 的词形 form-of · informal · nonstandard

    form-of · informal · nonstandard

    Now, ya dun it!

    ...a wise old lady exclaimed, "Why Mrs. M. warn't you orful skeerd wunst when you seed a dog fight? [...] an that ere big yaller dog bit orf your baby's hand that minit; in cors he dun it, so now that settles it."

    1895 May 17, S.L.N. Foote, “Correspondence”, in International Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 8, retrieved 13 Oct 2016, page 194:
  2. don't 按發音的寫法: do的縮約形 + not.

    do 的词形 form-of · informal · nonstandard

    form-of · informal · nonstandard

    Fwhere's he come from, I dun'no'. French or English, I dun'no'. But a gintleman born, I know.

    1901, Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way, New York and London: Harper, →OCLC:

動詞 · 8

词源

可能源自處理過後魚的顏色。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 醃製好鱈魚等魚類後將其堆放在不被光線直射到的地方, 並用碱茅等覆蓋來保存

    transitive · 舊

    Dun-fish are of a superior quality for the table, and are cured in such a manner as to give them a dun or brownish color. Fish for dunning are caught early in spring, and sometimes February, at the Isle of Shoals.

    1832, James Thacher, History of Plymouth; from its first settlement in 1620, to the year 1832, Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, →OCLC, page 317:
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dunnedpast · participle · 簡單過去時

名詞 · 9

词源

參見dune。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 小山丘

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感嘆詞 · 10

词源

擬聲詞。

读音

  • /dʌn/
  • Dunne

释义

  1. 模仿帶有懸疑色彩的音樂。

    humorous

    How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)

    2009, Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks: The Official Handbook, Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, →ISBN:

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