| 单词 |
dunner |
| 释义 |
▪ I. dunner, n.1 Sc.|ˈdʌnə(r)|
Also dunder.
[Belongs to dunner v.]
A resounding or reverberating noise; a blow causing vibration.
1780J. Mayne Siller Gun ii. 127 But a' this time, wi' mony a dunder [= dunner], Auld guns were brattling aff like thunder [= thunner]. 1789Davidson Seasons 18 (Jam.) His Maggy on his mind Did sometimes gie a dunner. 1850J. Struthers Poet. Wks. I. Autobiog. 129 The dunner of the engine..has ceased.
▪ II. dunner, n.2
[f. dun v.3 + -er1.]
One who duns or importunes another, esp. for money due; a dun.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Dunner, a Sollicitor for Debts. 1712Steele Spect. No. 454 ⁋5 [They] serve the Owners in getting them Customers, as their common Dunners do in making them pay. 1822T. Thomas To Occupiers of Land 14 A fine till'd wheaten Field That Owner will from Debts and Dunner shield.
▪ III. dunner, v. Sc.
[perh. in origin freq. of dun v.2; but with onomatopœic associations.]
intr. To make a reverberating noise, to resound; to fall or strike with vibration and reverberating noise.
1802in Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 180 As down he dunner'd on the ground. 1820Edin. Mag. June 533 (Jam.) It gard the divots stour aff the house riggins and every caber dunner. |
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