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Cun
Webster 1828 Edition
Cun
CUN
,Verb.
T.
1.
To know. [Not used.] [See Con.]2.
To direct the course of a ship. [See Cond, the true orthography.]Definition 2024
cun
cun
English
Verb
cun (third-person singular simple present cuns, present participle cunning, simple past and past participle cunned)
- (obsolete) To know.
Related terms
Etymology 2
See cond.
Verb
cun (third-person singular simple present cuns, present participle cunning, simple past and past participle cunned)
- To con (a ship).
Galician
Etymology
From contraction of preposition con (“with”) + masculine article un (“a, one”)
Contraction
cun m (feminine cunha, masculine plural cuns, feminine plural cunhas)
Istriot
Alternative forms
Etymology
Preposition
cun
- with
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:
- Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.
- Dear, with that little white and red face.
- Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:
Mandarin
Romanization
cun
- Nonstandard spelling of cūn.
- Nonstandard spelling of cún.
- Nonstandard spelling of cǔn.
- Nonstandard spelling of cùn.
Usage notes
- 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.