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

1. Horse of a dull brownish grey colour
   "The dun blended in well with the dusty landscape"
    
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 debt collectors dunned him daily";
   - 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
   "Age had dunned the old photograph"

Sounds like: donn, Donn

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

See also: chromatic

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

Encyclopedia: Dun, Norway