Dun vs Dung - What's the difference?

In uncountable terms the difference between dun and dung

is that dun is a brownish grey colour while dung is manure; animal excrement.

In countable terms the difference between dun and dung

is that dun is a newly hatched, immature mayfly while dung is a type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

In transitive terms the difference between dun and dung

is that dun is to cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance while dung is to fertilize with dung.

As an adjective dun

is of a brownish grey colour.

As a contraction dun

is eye dialect of don't|lang=en.

As an interjection dun

is Imitating suspenseful music.

dun
English
(wikipedia dun)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dun, dunne, from (etyl) . Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Late Brythonic (compare Old Welsh dwnn 'dark (red)'), from (etyl) (compare Old Saxon dosan 'chestnut brown'). More at dusk.
Noun

(uncountable) A brownish grey colour.

Adjective
(-)
Of a brownish grey colour.

* Pierpont

Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.

* Keble

Chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Derived terms
* dun-bar
See also
* bawn * durmast oak *
Etymology 2
; perhaps a variant of din.
Noun
(en noun)
(countable) A collector of debts.

* Arbuthnot

to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun

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

Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.

* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 102:

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

An urgent request or demand of payment.

He sent his debtor a dun .

Verb
(dunn)
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

* Jonathan Swift

Hath she sent so soon to dun ?

* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 577:

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.

* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 107:

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

To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

Derived terms
* dun letter
Etymology 3

Noun
(en noun)
A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

Etymology 4

Noun
(en noun)
(countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly.

Etymology 5
See done.
Verb
(head)
(informal) : (do)

He dun''' it before and he '''dun it again.

Now, ya dun it!

Etymology 6
See .
Contraction
(en-cont)

Etymology 7

Verb
(dunn)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

Etymology 8
See dune.
Noun
(en noun)
A mound or small hill.

Etymology 9
Imitative.
Interjection
(en interjection)
(humorous)

* Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks

Has he allowed the power and the repercussions of the Death Note to influence his entire life? How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)
(Webster 1913)
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----

dung
English
(wikipedia dung)
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl).

Noun

(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.

* 1605 , , act III, scene iv, line 129

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool

* 1611 , Authorized King James Version , Malachi 2:3

Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung' upon your faces, even the ' dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 496

The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.

(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Derived terms

* dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungy

Verb

(en verb)

To fertilize with dung.

(Dryden)

(calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

To void excrement.

Etymology 2

See

Verb

(head)

(obsolete)

Etymology 3

unknown

Verb

(en verb)

(colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

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