Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mouth.
- A variant of
moun , maun — that is, must. - noun One of a band of dissolute young fellows who, in the reign of Queen Anne, swaggered by night in the streets of London, breaking windows, overturning sedans, beating men, and offering rude caresses to women; a Mohawk.
- noun A dialectal variant of
man , used indefinitely for both numbers of the third personal pronoun (he, him, they, them). - noun A familiar term of address applied to persons of either sex and of any age: usually at the end of a sentence and practically expletive: as, mind what I'm tellin' you, mun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dialect, Northern England, modal auxiliary, defective
Must . - noun obsolete, dialect The
mouth ,jaw .
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Examples
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Harun's successor Al-Ma'mun is linked with the founding of the House of Wisdom, a library, academy and translation factory that may have become at the time the largest repository of books in the world.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review Tim Radford 2010
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And I mind well then that the old Betsy comed out of a hedge soon afterward -- she'd a been listening, I reckon -- and saith she, 'Shall I call mun back to' ee now?
The Drummer's Coat 1896
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"And it wasn't above a week afterward that the old Betsy cometh back and saith, 'You'd best have let me call mun back when I told' ee '; and then she told me that a serjeant was come to Ashacombe and that Jan was listed for a sojer and was agone.
The Drummer's Coat 1896
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A small flat stone serves for a candlestick, on which a lump of tallow is placed, close to a piece of fibrous moss called mun-ne, which is used for a wick.
Schwatka's Search 1869
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I think the "mun" one would have been less wrecky if it were for Fathers Day!
Proud Mamas 2010
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Terror had acquired a kind of mun-danity, had become an atmosphere, a medium in which we just went on functioning, and did what we were supposed to do until somehow our Death would get to us.
Port Eternity Cherryh, C. J. 1982
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"Nay, nay," replied Abe, "yo 'mun't tak' me for a butterfly preacher; I'm noan going to bed i 'dayloight, I'm baan to praach."
Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell
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The canoe or "mun" is a large sheet of bark cut from the gum-tree, carefully lowered to the ground, and then heated with fire until it becomes soft and pliable, and can be moulded into form, it is then supported by wooden props, to keep it in shape, until it becomes hard and set, which is in about twenty-four hours, though it is frequently used sooner.
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The canoe or "mun" is a large sheet of bark cut from the gum-tree, carefully lowered to the ground, and then heated with fire until it becomes soft and pliable, and can be moulded into form, it is then supported by wooden props, to keep it in shape, until it becomes hard and set, which is in about twenty-four hours, though it is frequently used sooner.
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Another one is "mun" which is used in frustation usually, for example "Hurry up, mun!" or
unknown title 2009
arby commented on the word mun
From the Fandom wank wiki:
Short for "mundane" or "human", a mun is the player of a sockpuppet in an RPG. The real person behind the mask.
Sometimes there is wank when a mun is discovered to be someone another mun hates outside the RPG. Sometimes wank happens when a mun leaves in a huff and the character gets passed to another player. Sometimes muns are just wanky people in general.
November 30, 2007
yarb commented on the word mun
I'm loving all the wanking going on here.
November 30, 2007
yarb commented on the word mun
Or should that be wankery?
November 30, 2007
arby commented on the word mun
I've seen both, my totally real, non madeupical friend.
November 30, 2007
byra commented on the word mun
No you haven't. I would know. I was there.
November 30, 2007