dunnern.
/ˈdʌnə/, U.S. /ˈdənər/ A creditor who makes insistent or repeated demands for repayment of a debt; (also) an agent employed by a creditor to collect a debt; a debt collector. Cf. dun n.2 1.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > importunately > as a creditor, etc.
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dunner?c1654
ferret1699
?c1654 How Oxf. Scholars spent their Time in J. W. Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1897) VIII. p. xciii We neuer aske him for a groate, But wish 't were all stucke in his throate, Till at length, at Quarter's day, there comes The dunners with their bouncing summs.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 454. ⁋5 [They] serve the Owners in getting them Customers, as their common Dunners do in making them pay.
1784 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 10 Jan. No Bailiff's grim dunner, No Lawyer's lank runner.
1822 T. Thomas To Occupiers of Land 14 A fine till'd wheaten Field That Owner will from Debts and Dunner shield.
1922 R. T. Porte John Smith's Bookkeeping ii. 21 Jefferson Bell never feared ‘dunners’.
2008 L. S. Carroll All for Love 129 Mr. Robinson's expectations for obtaining the vast sums he owed to his dunners were nonexistent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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