Mun
name, noun, pron, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The mouth, jaw. dialectal, obsolete
"A common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, / Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns."
- 2 man South-Africa, UK, dialectal
- 3 The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one. Internet
"Jade grabs a handful of brownies and nibbles on then,^([sic]) trying to keep her mun from reaching right to the screen to get some[…]"
- 4 Abbreviation of model United Nations. abbreviation, alt-of
- 1 Must. Northern-English, auxiliary, defective, dialectal, modal
"Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense."
- 1 them Devon, UK, dialectal, obsolete
"tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun"
- 1 A river in Thailand; in full, River Mun.
- 2 A surname. countable
- 3 Abbreviation of Memorial University of Newfoundland. abbreviation, alt-of
- 4 A river in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom; in full, Mun River.
Synonyms
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More examples"Maybe, my favourite Toki Pona word is "mun," meaning "moon" or a "celestial object.""
Etymology
From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.
From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; Doublet of mouth.
Clipping of mundane.
Shortened form
Borrowed from Korean 문 (mun), mainly from Chinese 文.
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