mun

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
8
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/mʌn/

Definition of mun

10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.”
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verb

  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.”

noun

  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.”
  2. (South-Africa, UK, dialectal)man
  3. (Internet)The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
    “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[…]”
    “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..”
    “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?”
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of model United Nations.

pron

  1. (Devon, UK, dialectal, obsolete)them
    “tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun”

name

  1. A river in Thailand; in full, River Mun.
  2. A river in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom; in full, Mun River.
  3. (countable)A surname.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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