mun

verb, noun, pron — 5 senses

mun

verb

/mʌn/

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

1

Northern English, 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:

mun

noun

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

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:

mun

pron
  • tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 50:

mun

noun

mun

noun

Etymology Clipping of mundane.

1

Internet The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.

Roleplaying games

  • 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):
  • 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):
1 more example
  • 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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