dun

Adjective

• of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color
  • the dun and dreary prairie
    

Noun

• a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
  • she wore dun
    

• horse of a dull brownish grey color

Verb

• make a dun color

• cure by salting
  • dun codfish
    

• persistently ask for overdue payment
  • The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone
    

• treat cruelly
  • The children tormented the stuttering teacher
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  greyish brown , grayish brown , fawn , torment , rag , bedevil , crucify , frustrate