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mun en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mʌn/

Etymology

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.

Meanings

  1. (Northern-English, auxiliary, defective, dialectal, modal) Must.
    • Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense. 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village:

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Source: en.wiktionary, “mun” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

mun en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mʌn/

Etymology

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; Doublet of mouth.

Meanings

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) The mouth, jaw.
    • 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. 1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words:

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Source: en.wiktionary, “mun” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

mun en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mʌn/

Meanings

  1. (South-Africa, UK, dialectal) man
Source: en.wiktionary, “mun” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

mun en · PRON · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mʌn/

Meanings

  1. (Devon, UK, dialectal, obsolete, qualifier:Somerset) them
    • tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun 1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 50:
Source: en.wiktionary, “mun” (pron), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

mun en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /mʌn/

Etymology

Clipping of mundane.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, qualifier:roleplaying games) The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
    • Wait a sec.... You mean.. this is a GAME?? And here I thought that nine tae five job my mun goes to everyday^([sic]) was a game and Norrath was my home.. 1999 November 4, Milelarau [username], “Re: Roleplaying”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):
    • 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[…] 1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):
    • Any suggestions on how to successfully turn this into a good SL, which will bring the characters back into the range of normalcy, without leaving the muns feeling deprived of everything their characters earned? 2001 December 31, JamesStein, “Successfully Powering Down a Campaign”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

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Synonyms

roleplayer · RPer