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gun

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gŭn, IPA^(key): /ɡʌn/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ɡʊn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

Noun

gun (plural guns)

1. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
   • 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.

   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.
   4. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
   5. (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^{21-gun salute}
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.

   2. A device or tool that projects a substance.

   3. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.

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.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
6. (television) An electron gun.
7. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
8. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
9. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (colloquial) An expert.
10. (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: gon

Translations

Verb

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. (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).

   We're all gunning for you.

3. (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
4. 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.

5. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
6. (transitive, intransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).

Derived terms

• gun down
• gun it
• outgun

Translations

Etymology 2

Related to ganef.

Noun

gun (plural guns)

1. (obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 3

From gunna, from gonna, from going to.

Verb

gun

1. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

   I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.

References

Anagrams

• GNU, Ngu, UNG, Ung, gnu, nug

Bissa

Noun

gun

1. night

Cornish

Noun

gun f (plural gonyow)

1. plain

Dongxiang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuŋ/

Adjective

gun

1. deep

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣʏn/
• Hyphenation: gun
• Rhymes: -ʏn
• Homophone: Gun

Verb

gun

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

Japanese

Romanization

gun

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐん

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun).

Noun

gun

1. goods for sale

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[4], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Mandarin

Romanization

gun

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

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Manx

Noun

gun m (genitive singular gunney, plural gunnaghyn)

1. Alternative form of gunn

Middle English

Noun

gun

1. Alternative form of gunne

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊn

Noun

gun m

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before a broad consonant or a, o, u) /kən̪ˠ/, (before a slender consonant or e, i) /kəɲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish co.

Alternative forms

• gu (before bheil)
• gum (before b, p, m, f)

Conjunction

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 2

From Old Irish cen.

Preposition

gun (+ nominative, triggers lenition except before d, t, n or s)

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

Synonyms

• às aonais

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

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.

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡũ̀/

Verb

gùn

1. to be long (usually along a horizontal axis)

Usage notes

• gun before a direct object

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwũ̀ (“to ascend”) or Proto-Yoruboid *gũ̀, cognate with Igala gwú (“to climb, to mate”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡũ̀/

Verb

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 notes

• gun before a direct object

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwũ̀ (“to sweat”), cognate with Igala gwù (“to sweat”), see *(ò)úgwũ̀ (“sweat”), úgwù (“sweat”), and òógùn (“sweat, perspiration”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡũ̀/

Verb

gùn

1. (intransitive) to sweat

   Synonym: làágùn

Derived terms

• òógùn (“sweat”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡũ̄/

Verb

gun

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

Derived terms

• igun (“corner, angle”)
• orígun

Etymology 5

Cognates with Itsekiri gún

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

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 terms

Etymology 6

Alternative forms

• gán (Ikalẹ)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• ẹ̀gún (“thorn”)

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

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 8

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

gún

1. to curse

   Synonym: gégùn-ún

Derived terms

Source: wiktionary.org