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dung

[ duhng ]

noun

  1. excrement, especially of animals; manure.


verb (used with object)

  1. to manure (ground) with or as if with dung.

dung

/ dʌŋ /

noun

    1. excrement, esp of animals; manure
    2. ( as modifier )

      dung cart

  1. something filthy


verb

  1. tr to cover (ground) with manure

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Derived Forms

  • ˈdungy, adjective

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Other Words From

  • dungy adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dung1

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Low German, German dung; compare Icelandic dyngja heap, dung, Swedish dynga dung, muck, Old High German tunga manuring

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dung1

Old English: prison; related to Old High German tunc cellar roofed with dung, Old Norse dyngja manure heap

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Example Sentences

They could wash off cow dung, forget a yell that had no meaning.

Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.

Rhino tend to stick close to their “middens”—dung piles—and this predictably makes them even more vulnerable.

Dung is to Ofili what beds are to Tracey Emin or formaldehyde is to Damien Hirst.

The man is uncivil and impolitic, rough-hewn enough for leather fringe and dung-crusted boots.

Bran or horse-dung inside was a good thing as a stop-gap, though it added not to the strength of the boiler.

It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps.

Well rotten dung, which had been kept in the manure heap upwards of six months.

Pigeons' dung, according to Boussingault, contains 8·3 per cent of nitrogen, equivalent to 10·0 of ammonia.

They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

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