to dun

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(AngSax. dynan to clamor.) To urge for payment; to demand a debt in a pressing manner.--Johnson.


But you have something to add, Sancho, to what I owe your good will also on this account, and that is to send me the subscription money, which I find a necessity of dunning my best friends for before I leave town.--Sterne, Works, Let. 94.

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