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。
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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。
释义
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:
派生词(3)
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。
释义
討債人,追債人
countableLook 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:
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。
释义
討債
transitiveAnd 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:
不停重複(要求等)來騷擾
transitiveRich 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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| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|
| duns | third-person · singular · present | |
| dunning | present · participle | |
| dunned | past · participle · 簡單過去時 | |
派生词(1)
dun letter
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。
释义
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:
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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