mun

The mouth, jaw.

Noun dialectal, obsolete

  1. The mouth, jaw.
    • A common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, / Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. - 1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words:

Origin

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; Doublet of mouth.

Forms

muns

Noun South Africa, UK

  1. man

Noun Internet

  1. The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
    • Jade grabs a handful of brownies and nibbles on then,^([sic]) trying to keep her mun from reaching right to the screen to get some[…] - 1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in...
    • Wait a sec.... You mean.. this is a GAME?? And here I thought that nine tae five job my mun goes to everyday^([sic]) was a game and Norrath was my home.. - 1999 November 4, Milelarau [username], “Re: Roleplaying”, in...
    • Any suggestions on how to successfully turn this into a good SL, which will bring the characters back into the range of normalcy, without leaving the muns feeling deprived of everything their characters earned? - 2001...

    Synonyms: roleplayer RPer

Origin

Clipping of mundane.

Forms

muns

Pronoun

  1. them
    • tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun - 1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 50:

Verb

  1. Must.
    • Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense. - 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village:

Origin

From Middle English mone (“shall, must”), from Old Norse munu (“shall, must”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.

Forms

maun