cun

See also cūn, cún, cǔn, cùn, čun, and çûn

English

Etymology 1

See con.

Verb

cun (third-person singular simple present cuns, present participle cunning, simple past and past participle cunned)

1. (obsolete) To know.

Related terms

• cunning

Etymology 2

See cond.

Verb

cun (third-person singular simple present cuns, present participle cunning, simple past and past participle cunned)

1. To con (a ship).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• kun, cuon, kuon

Etymology

From Latin canis, canem.

Noun

cun m

1. dog

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Galician

Etymology

From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + masculine article un (“a, one”)

Contraction

cun m (feminine cunha, masculine plural cuns, feminine plural cunhas)

1. with a, with one

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Lojban

Rafsi

cun

1. rafsi of cunso.

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Mandarin

Romanization

cun

1. Nonstandard spelling of cūn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cún.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cǔn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cùn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.