dun (n.)

  1. horse of a dull brownish grey color

  2. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; she wore dun

    [ Syn: greyish brown , grayish brown , fawn ]

    dun (adj.)

  1. of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; the dun and dreary prairie'

    dun (v.)

  1. treat cruelly; The children tormented the stuttering teacher

    [ Syn: torment , rag , bedevil , crucify , frustrate ]

  2. persistently ask for overdue payment; The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone'

  3. cure by salting; dun codfish'

  4. make a dun color

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