dun vs dusky

dun

adj
  • Of a brownish grey colour. 

verb
  • To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. 

  • To ask or beset a debtor for payment. 

intj
  • Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music. 

noun
  • A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding. 

  • A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago. 

  • A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. 

  • An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. 

  • A mound or small hill. 

  • A brownish grey colour. 

  • An urgent request or demand of payment. 

  • A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch. 

dusky

adj
  • Having a shade of color that is rather dark. 

  • Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration. 

  • Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening). 

noun
  • A dusky dolphin. 

  • A dusky grouse. 

  • A dusky shark. 

How often have the words dun and dusky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )