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Shud vs Shun - What's the difference?

shud | shun |

As verbs the difference between shud and shun

is that shud is form of should|lang=en while shun is to avoid, especially persistently.

As a noun shud

is a shed.

shud

English

Etymology 1

From the Late (etyl) schudde.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, outside, Derbyshire, East Anglia, Herefordshire, Yorkshire) A (l).

    • References

    “ shud]” listed in the [2nd ed., 1989

    Etymology 2

    See should.

    Verb

    (head)
    • English nonstandard forms English archaic forms

    shun

    English

    Verb

    (shunn)
  • To avoid, especially persistently.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  • To screen, hide.
  • To shove, push.

    • Derived terms

    * shunless * shunnable * shunner

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