Dun vs Harass - What's the difference?
dun | harass |
(uncountable) A brownish grey colour.
Of a brownish grey colour.
* Pierpont
* Keble
(countable) A collector of debts.
* Arbuthnot
* 1933 , (George Orwell), Down and Out in Paris and London , Ch. 18:
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 102:
An urgent request or demand of payment.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 107:
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
(informal) : (do)
To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
(humorous)
* Carrie Tucker, I Love Geeks
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
(obsolete) devastation; waste
(obsolete) worry; harassment
As nouns the difference between dun and harass
is that dun is fortress while harass is (obsolete) devastation; waste.As verbs the difference between dun and harass
is that dun is to close, shut while harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.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
Adjective
(-)- Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up.
- Chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Derived terms
* dun-barSee also
* bawn * durmast oak *Etymology 2
; perhaps a variant of din.Noun
(en noun)- to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun
- Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.
- ‘Frank's worried about duns ,’ she said as the butler went away.
- He sent his debtor a dun .
Verb
(dunn)- Hath she sent so soon to dun ?
- 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.
- Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.
Derived terms
* dun letterEtymology 3
Etymology 4
Etymology 5
See done.Verb
(head)- He dun''' it before and he '''dun it again.
- Now, ya dun it!
Etymology 6
See .Etymology 7
Verb
(dunn)Etymology 8
See dune.Etymology 9
Imitative.Interjection
(en interjection)- 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.)
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----harass
English
Verb
(es)- In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
- in the early 1940s.
Synonyms
* hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provokeDerived terms
* harasser * harassmentExternal links
* *Noun
- (Milton)
- (Byron)
