Wiktionary

gun

See also: Gun, gùn, guṅ, gün, Gün, and gǔn

EnglishEdit

 
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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

  • enPR: gŭn, IPA(key): /ɡʌn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

NounEdit

gun (plural guns)

  1. 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.
    Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
    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.
    1. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
    2. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
    3. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.[1]
    4. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.[1]
    5. (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.
  2. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
    1. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
      air-pressure pellet gun... air rifle... BB gun... zipgun...nail gun... a potato gun...
    2. A device or tool that projects a substance.
      a squirt gun... a spray gun... a grease gun...
    3. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
      a rivet gun... a screw gun... a price-label gun...
  3. (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.
  4. (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
  5. (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.
  6. (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.
  7. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
  8. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
  9. (colloquial) An expert.
  10. (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
Derived termsEdit
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)

  1. (transitive) To cause to speed up.
    He gunned the engine.
  2. (transitive, informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
    We're all gunning for you.
  3. 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.
  4. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  5. (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)

  1. (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.
ReferencesEdit
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 3Edit

From gunna, from gonna, from going to.

VerbEdit

gun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of going to.
    I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 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

  1. night

CornishEdit

NounEdit

gun f (plural gonyow)

  1. plain

DongxiangEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian гүн (gün).

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

gun

  1. deep

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gun

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gunnen
  2. imperative of gunnen

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

gun

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐん

JingphoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun).

NounEdit

gun

  1. goods for sale

ReferencesEdit

  • Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[2], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

gun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gǔn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gùn.

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)

  1. Alternative form of gunn

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

gun

  1. Alternative form of gunne

Northern KurdishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gun m

  1. testicle, ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis

Scottish GaelicEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): (before a broad consonant or a, o, u) /ɡən̪ˠ/, (before a slender consonant or e, i) /ɡəɲ/

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Irish co.

Alternative formsEdit

ConjunctionEdit

gun

  1. 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

From Old Irish cen.

PrepositionEdit

gun (triggers lenition of words beginning b, c, f, g, m, p)

  1. without
    gun teagamh ― without a doubt
    gun chàr ― without a car
  2. 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)

  1. neither...nor
    • 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:
      Duine gun mhath gun chron, is motha a chron na a mhath. ― A man that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.

YorubaEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gùn

  1. 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

  1. (intransitive) to climb, to ascend something
  2. to be climbed, to be mounted
  3. (intransitive, transitive) to ride or mount (someone or something)
    ó gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ ― She mounted a donkey
  4. (idiomatic, intransitive) to copulate, to mate
    Synonym: dó
  5. (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

  1. (intransitive) to sweat
    Synonym: làágùn
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gun

  1. to be angular in shape, to form an angle
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 5Edit

Cognates with Isekiri gún

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gún

  1. 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

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gún

  1. 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

Etymology 7Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gún

  1. to be straight; to straighten
  2. 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.”)
  3. to shrug one's shoulders
    Mo gún èjìká. ― I shrugged my shoulders.

Etymology 8Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gún

  1. to curse
    Synonym: gégùn-ún
Derived termsEdit
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