Gun

  • 51gun — [14] Gun probably comes, unlikely as it may seem, from the Scandinavian female forename Gunnhildr (originally a compound of gunnr ‘war’ and hildr ‘war’). It is by no means unusual for large fearsome weapons to be named after women (for reasons… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 52gun — used to describe someone who is really good at something, or is doing well at something ie. going off. Based on the principle that a gun goes off. That guy is an absolute gun! Mate, he s gunning it …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 53gun — used to describe someone who is really good at something, or is doing well at something ie. going off. Based on the principle that a gun goes off. That guy is an absolute gun! Mate, he s gunning it …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 54gun — In military parlance, a heavy weapon with a long barrel, such as a cannon. In common parlance, a rifle, pistol, revolver, machine gun, or other instrumentality having a barrel or tube from which a bullet or other projectile is discharged by force …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 55gun — [14] Gun probably comes, unlikely as it may seem, from the Scandinavian female forename Gunnhildr (originally a compound of gunnr ‘war’ and hildr ‘war’). It is by no means unusual for large fearsome weapons to be named after women (for reasons… …

    Word origins

  • 56Gun — Gin Gin (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gan} (g[a^]n), {Gon} (g[o^]n), or {Gun} (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ginning}.] [OE. ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob. akin to …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 57guṇa — (гуна | guṇa) Термин, заимствованный у индийских грамматиков (по санскритски: качество, достоинство) для обозначения состояния корневой огласовки, промежуточного между ступенью, принимаемой за нормальную, и ступенью, называемой врддхи; таково… …

    Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов

  • 58gun it — verb To accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly. Youre going to have to gun it to pick up that much speed in such a short distance …

    Wiktionary

  • 59Gun — This interesting name has three possible derivations. The first from the Olde Norse Viking pre 7th Century personal name Gunnr , meaning battle. Secondly, a metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a Seige Cannon, from the Medieval… …

    Surnames reference

  • 60Gun — Gunda, Gunde, Gun, Gunn nordische Kurzform von Namen mit »Gund« bzw. der Endung »gund« (Bedeutung: Kampf). Gunde ist in Skandinavien auch ein Jungenname …

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