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1. Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey colour
   "the dun and dreary prairie"

1. Horse of a dull brownish grey colour
    
2. A colour or pigment varying around a light grey-brown colour
   "she wore dun";
   - greyish brown [Brit, Cdn], grayish brown [US], fawn

1. Harass persistently in cruel or annoying way
   "The children dunned the stuttering teacher";
   - torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate
    
2. Persistently ask for overdue payment
   "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"
    
3. (cooking) cure by salting
   "dun codfish"
    
4. Make a dun colour

Sounds like: donn, Donn

Derived forms: dunned, dunner, dunnest, duns, dunning

See also: chromatic

Type of: beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, cure, darken, demand, harass, harry, hassle [informal], light brown, molest, mount, plague, provoke, riding horse, saddle horse

Encyclopedia: Dun, Norway