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dung
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dung? (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).
Noun
dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)
- (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene iv, line 129
- Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool […]
- 1611, Authorized King James Version, Malachi 2:3
- Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496
- The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene iv, line 129
- (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
- (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
Synonyms
- (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate
Translations
Etymology 2
See ding
Verb
dung
- (obsolete) past participle of ding
Etymology 3
unknown
Verb
dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)
- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
Etymology 4
Onomatopeia
Interjection
dung
- Alternative spelling of dong (sound of a bell)
Anagrams
- UNDG
Middle English
Noun
dung
- Alternative form of donge
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dun?/, [du??]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *dungz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover; covering”)
Alternative forms
- ding
Noun
dung f (nominative plural dyng)
- dungeon, prison
Declension
Synonyms
- dimh?s
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *dung?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).
Alternative forms
- ding
Noun
dung f
- dung, manure
Declension
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dungiz, *dungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).
Noun
dung m or f
- weaving, weavingroom
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
- dong
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese ?? (ph? dung, “wifely look”).
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [z?w??m??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [j?w??m??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [j?w??m??]
- Homophones: Dung, giun, vun, vung
Verb
dung
- (archaic or literary) to tolerate
Noun
dung
- (Confucianism) beauty, one of the t? ??c (“four virtues”) that women are supposed to have
See also
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dungyard
English
Etymology
dung +? yard
Noun
dungyard (plural dungyards)
- A yard where dung is collected.
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