gun
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English gunne, gonne, from Lady Gunilda, a huge crossbow with a powerful shot, with the second part of the term being of Old Norse origin. It was later used to denote firearms. The name Gunnhildr and its multiple variations are derived from Old Norse gunnr (“battle, war”) + hildr (“battle”), which makes it a pleonasm. In the given context the woman's name means battle maid. See also Hilda, Gunilda, Gunhild, Gunhilda, Gunnhildr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gun (plural guns)
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
- 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
- Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
- Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.[1]
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.[1]
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.21-gun salute
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- 2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
- by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
- 2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- 2000, Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature:
- The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream […] .
- 2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, p.74:
- Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun
- (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
- 2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club[1]:
- De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the real-life South Philly truck driver who moonlighted, over the second half of the 20th century, as a hired gun for the mafia.
- (television) An electron gun.
- 2012, Brand Fortner, Theodore E. Meyer, Number by Colors, page 202:
- The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial) An expert.
- (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
Derived termsEdit
- air gun, airgun
- air-gun
- Alekhine's gun
- anti-gun
- Armstrong gun
- Barisal gun
- BB gun
- big gun
- blow from a gun
- blowgun, blow gun
- Bofors gun
- Bren gun
- bum gun
- burp gun
- cap gun
- cap-gun
- caulking gun
- cemetery gun
- chain gun
- chase gun
- Chekhov's gun
- chicken gun
- clam gun
- coach gun
- coilgun, coil gun
- Costain gun
- costain gun
- Dane gun
- dart gun
- Deer gun
- deluge gun
- eat one's gun
- electric gun
- electron gun
- elephant gun
- evening gun
- fiber gun
- field gun
- finger gun
- flag gun
- flame gun
- flare gun
- flash gun
- flashgun
- Gardner gun
- Gatling gun
- Gauss gun
- gene gun
- ghost gun
- give a gun
- give it the gun
- glider gun
- glue gun
- go great guns
- gravity gun
- grease gun
- great gun
- gun carriage
- gun club
- gun control
- gun cotton, guncotton
- gun culture
- gun deck
- gun dog, gundog
- gun for
- gun fu
- gun furniture
- gun grabber
- gun jumping
- gun kata
- gun lap
- gun layer
- gun line
- gun lobby
- gun mantlet
- gun metal
- gun paper
- gun pit
- gun rights
- gun shearer
- gun sock
- gun stock
- gun time
- gun worm
- gun-brig
- gun-broke
- gun-control
- gun-for-hire
- gun-fu
- gun-happy
- gun-howitzer
- gun-kata
- gun-layer
- gun-metal
- gun-paper
- gun-rights
- gun-stick
- gun-toting
- gun-type bomb
- gunboat
- guncase
- gunfight
- gunfighter
- gunfire
- gunflint
- gunman
- gunmetal
- gunner
- gunnery
- gunplay
- gunpoint
- gunport
- gunpowder, gun powder
- gunroom
- gunrunner
- gunrunning
- gunship
- gunshot
- gunshy, gun-shy, gun shy
- gunsight
- gunslinger
- gunsmith
- gunstock
- gunzel
- handgun
- harpoon gun
- heat gun
- hired gun
- hold a gun to someone's head
- hookgun
- hot glue gun
- Hotchkiss gun
- is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
- jump the gun
- junk gun
- Krupp gun
- laser gun, laser-gun, lasergun
- Lewis gun
- light gun
- light machine gun
- line gun
- long gun
- machine gun, machine-gun
- Maxim gun
- mini-gun
- minigun
- minute gun
- morning gun
- mountain gun
- mouse gun
- nailgun, nail gun
- needle gun
- net gun
- noon gun
- Nordenfelt gun
- organ gun
- out-gun
- Paixhans gun
- pellet gun
- pen gun
- pick gun
- piercing gun
- pill gun
- pivot gun
- poacher's gun
- popgun, pop gun
- price gun
- pro-gun
- prop gun
- punt gun
- put a gun to someone's head
- quaker gun
- Quaker gun
- radar gun
- rail gun, railgun
- railroad gun
- railway gun
- ray gun, ray-gun, raygun
- Rodman gun
- run and gun
- run-and-gun
- scatter gun
- scatter-gun
- scrub gun
- shotgun, shot-gun
- six-gun
- slam gun
- sleeve gun
- slum gun
- smoking gun
- snake gun
- snow gun
- son of a gun
- son-of-a-gun stew
- space gun
- spear gun
- splatter gun
- splatter-gun
- spring gun
- spud gun
- squirt gun
- staple gun
- starting gun
- steam gun
- Sten gun
- stick to one's guns
- stun gun
- stutter gun
- submachine gun
- sure as a gun
- swivel gun
- tattoo gun
- temperature gun
- Thompson submachine gun
- time-gun
- Tommy gun
- top gun
- under the gun
- up-gun
- watch gun
- water gun
- Whitworth gun
- wire gun
- Woolworth gun
- you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
- young gun
- zip gun
- zipgun
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: gon
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
gun (third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- He gunned the engine.
- (transitive, informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- We're all gunning for you.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (transitive, intransitive, prison slang) To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
- 2004, Jens Soering, Yoga of Heart:
- In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.
- 2010, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report
- […] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Related to ganef.
NounEdit
gun (plural guns)
- (obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.
- 1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.) (page 2)
- To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
- 1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.) (page 2)
ReferencesEdit
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Etymology 3Edit
From gunna, from gonna, from going to.
VerbEdit
gun
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 JP 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 November 2010 (As Amended Through 15 March 2012), p.142. (Searchable online version)
AnagramsEdit
BissaEdit
NounEdit
gun
CornishEdit
NounEdit
gun f (plural gonyow)
DongxiangEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian гүн (gün).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
gun
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gun
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
gun
JingphoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun).
NounEdit
gun
- goods for sale
ReferencesEdit
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
gun
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
ManxEdit
NounEdit
gun m (genitive singular gunney, plural gunnaghyn)
- Alternative form of gunn
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
gun
- Alternative form of gunne
Northern KurdishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ʊn
NounEdit
gun m
Scottish GaelicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Alternative formsEdit
ConjunctionEdit
gun
- that
- an t-amadan sin gun do thagh thu ― that fool that you voted for
- am fear gum pòs aig deireadh na mìosa ― the man that will marry at the end of the month
- an taigh gu bheil aice ― the house that she has
Etymology 2Edit
PrepositionEdit
gun (triggers lenition of words beginning b, c, f, g, m, p)
- without
- gun teagamh ― without a doubt
- gun chàr ― without a car
- used to negate a verbal noun
- thuirt mi ris gun a dhol a-mach ― I told him not to go out
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
ConjunctionEdit
gun (triggers lenition)
YorubaEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gùn
- to be long (usually along a horizontal axis)
Usage notesEdit
- gun before a direct object
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwṵ̀ (“to ascend”) or Proto-Yoruboid *gũ̀, cognate with Igala gwú (“to climb, to mate”)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gùn
- (intransitive) to climb, to ascend something
- to be climbed, to be mounted
- (intransitive, transitive) to ride or mount (someone or something)
- ó gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ ― She mounted a donkey
- (idiomatic, intransitive) to copulate, to mate
- Synonym: dó
- (idiomatic) to be possessed; (in particular) to be possessed by the spirit of an orisha
- ó ń hùwà bí ẹni tí Ṣàngó ń gùn ― He is behaving like someone that Sango is possessing
Usage notesEdit
- gun before a direct object
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwṵ̀ (“to sweat”), cognate with Igala gwù (“to sweat”), see *(ò)úgwṵ̀ (“sweat”), úgwù (“sweat”), and òógùn (“sweat, perspiration”)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gùn
- (intransitive) to sweat
- Synonym: làágùn
Derived termsEdit
- òógùn (“sweat”)
Etymology 4Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gun
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 5Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gún
- to pound
- Jùmọ̀kẹ́ ò kí ń gún iyán dáadáa, ẹ̀bà nìkan ló lè tẹ̀. ― Jumoke doesn't pound yam well, she can only make eba.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 6Edit
Alternative formsEdit
- gán (Ìkálẹ̀)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gún
- to pierce; to jab; to penetrate; to stab
- Dókítà gún mi lábẹ́rẹ́. ― The doctor injected me with a needle.
- Igi gogoro máà gún mi lójú; àtòkèèrè la ti ń wò ó ― So that we may not be poked in the eye by the tall, pointed tree, one must watch it from afar.
Descended termsEdit
- ẹ̀gún (“thorn”)
Etymology 7Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gún
- to be straight; to straighten
- to be well arranged; to be in order
- Àárín tọkọtaya gún régé. ― There is peace between the couple. (literally, “Between the couple is in proper alignment.”)
- to shrug one's shoulders
- Mo gún èjìká. ― I shrugged my shoulders.
Etymology 8Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gún