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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : duhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʌn |
Definition of duns
Origin :- "to insist on payment of debt," 1620s, perhaps related to dunnen "to sound, resound, make a din" (c.1200, dialectal variant of din), or shortened from dunkirk (c.1600) "privateer," a private vessel licensed to attack enemy ships during wartime, from Dunkirk, French port from which they sailed. The oldest theory traces it to a Joe Dun, supposedly a London bailiff famous for catching defaulters. Related: Dunned; dunning. As a noun from 1620s.
- As in worry : verb be or make anxious, troubled
- As in bill : verb charge money for goods, services
- As in demand : verb ask strongly for something
- As in hassle : verb bother, harass
- As in importune : verb demand, insist
- "No faith with duns" became, as he frankly declared, a maxim of his morality.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Duns and disagreeables will come of themselves, and it's no bad fun dodging them.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- I'd like to know how much a drowning man cares for his duns?
- Extract from : « A Rent In A Cloud » by Charles James Lever
- The main thing was to avoid, put off, and distance his duns.
- Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook
- Here in this one farm we have the only three known methods of dealing with duns.
- Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
- My pet Tulliola claims your present and duns me as your security.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 » by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Duns, in the meantime, left me little leisure for contemplation.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- Still, my duns, though I paid them by driblets, were the plague of my life.
- Extract from : « Paul Clifford, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- This is incorrect; Duns was never doctor of Oxford; see notice of him.
- Extract from : « The Grey Friars in Oxford » by Andrew G. Little
- I have left my duns behind me; you are driving your duns before you.
- Extract from : « The Punster's Pocket-book » by Charles Molloy Westmacott
Synonyms for duns
- abuse
- afflict
- aggrieve
- agonize
- ail
- annoy
- appeal
- apply
- argue
- argufy
- arrogate
- ask
- attack
- badger
- bedevil
- beg
- beleaguer
- beseech
- beset
- besiege
- bicker
- bid
- bite one's nails
- bone
- bother
- brood
- bug
- chafe
- challenge
- charge
- chase
- cite
- claim
- clamor for
- coerce
- command
- compel
- con
- concern oneself
- constrain
- counterclaim
- crave
- debit
- depress
- despair
- direct
- dispute
- disquiet
- distress
- disturb
- draw upon
- dun
- egg on
- enjoin
- entreat
- exact
- expect
- feel uneasy
- figure
- force
- fret
- gnaw at
- go for
- goad
- goose
- harass
- harry
- hassle
- have qualms
- hector
- hit
- hit up
- hound
- impetrate
- implore
- importune
- inquire
- insist on
- interrogate
- invoice
- invoke
- irritate
- knock
- nag
- necessitate
- needle
- oblige
- oppress
- order
- persecute
- persuade
- perturb
- pester
- petition
- plague
- plead
- postulate
- pray
- press
- put the arm on
- put the bite on
- put the squeeze on
- question
- quibble
- reckon
- record
- render
- request
- require
- requisition
- sell
- solicit
- squabble
- stew
- stipulate
- sue for
- summon
- supplicate
- sweat out
- take on
- tantalize
- tax
- tear
- tease
- test
- torment
- torture
- trouble
- try
- unsettle
- upset
- urge
- vex
- whistle for
- wince
- work on
- worry
- wrangle
- writhe
- wrong
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