LekhoriLekhoriThe German Institute for Standardization.
A surname from Khmer.
A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
To make a din, to resound.
1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21, For, spite of rumbling of the wheels, A welcome greeting he can hear;— It is a fiddle in its glee Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!
of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
From Middle English dynnen, from Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).
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The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]
To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46, She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning him in the Ears all Night long.