Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2021 July 24

= July 24 =

Dunmurderin'
In Transformers: Generation 2 (comics), after Megatron has come back and killed Bludgeon, Starscream is showing thinking to himself (if I remember correctly):
 * ''And where does that leave me? With the things I've done, I doubt it means a pat in the back and a sign saying "Dunmurderin'"!

Now what does that last word "Dunmurderin'" exactly mean? J I P &#124; Talk 00:43, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * It's a play on the stereotypical house name "Dunroamin'" (meaning "Done [i.e. finished with] roaming"), "Dunmurderin'" would be an appropriate house name for someone who had settled down and stopped murdering. DuncanHill (talk) 00:50, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * "Done murdering". Clarityfiend (talk) 05:24, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * It's a play on placenames prefixed with Dun.--Shantavira|feed me 08:06, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Dunhomeofficin'? Martinevans123 (talk) 09:22, 24 July 2021 (UTC)


 * A robber might settle in Dunrobin. --Lambiam 14:03, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * A kid swearing off treats would be Dunsmores. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:58, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Retired Kiwi Wikipedian? Dunedin. { Martinevans123 (talk) 16:08, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Retired and moved to Florida. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:47, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Retired from tree surgery and moved to Scotland. Retired from the turkey farm to Dungoblyn. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:10, 24 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Just to note that genuine place names with the prefix "Dun-" come from the Scottish Gaelic Dùn, meanin a fort or fortified hill. So Dunbarton is "Fort of the Britons" and Dunblane might be "Fort of Blane". Also Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunkeld and probably several others.
 * Having an amusing (at least to the owner) house name is a bit of a British foible; besides "Dunroaming", similar "Dun" pun-names include "Dunbyus", "Dun It", "Dunowen", "Dun Grocklin", "Dun Sailing" "Dun Struggling" and "Dunitall".  Alansplodge (talk) 20:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * DunBrexitin'? Martinevans123 (talk) 20:30, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Slightly related: while wandering around rural Hampshire last week, I saw a house named "Thistle Dhu", the second part punning by referencing the Gaelic word for "black". Hassocks 5489 (Floreat Hova!)  09:50, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hah. I hope the property wasn't "Llareggub". Martinevans123 (talk) 10:41, 27 July 2021 (UTC)


 * This kind of makes sense, as even though the comic itself is American, it was written by Simon Furman, who is British. J I P  &#124; Talk 20:43, 24 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Dun fleecin', Dunfacin'. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:06, 24 July 2021 (UTC)