 Some derive it from the word donnez, which signifies give, but the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active, and so dexterous...  A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - Pagina 58door Francis Grose - 1785 - 182 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | George Washington Matsell - 1859 - 152 pagina’s
...DUN. A very importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial dialect of several counties in England, signifies deaf; to dun, then, perhaps may mean to deafen with importunate demand* ; it may have been derived from the word donnez, which signifies give. But the word undoubtedly... | |
 | 1869 - 746 pagina’s
...was the drunkenest sow they had ever beheld ; whence the woman was ever after called David's sow." " DUN, an importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial...of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active and so dextrous in his business that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay, Why do not you Dun him... | |
 | Albert Plympton Southwick - 1886 - 300 pagina’s
...give me, implying a demand of something due ; but it is said that the true origin of this expression owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, England, who lived in the days of Henry VII. , and was so extremely active, and so dexterous in the... | |
 | G. W. Niven - 1903 - 296 pagina’s
...signifies " give me," implying a demand of something due ; but the true original of this expression owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of...town of Lincoln, so extremely active and so dexterous at the management of his rough business that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay his debts,... | |
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