different between dung vs yelve

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)

1. (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.

2. (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)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.

   • a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
2. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.

Synonyms

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate

Translations

Etymology 2

See ding

Verb

dung

1. (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)

1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Etymology 4

Onomatopeia

Interjection

dung

1. Alternative spelling of dong (sound of a bell)

Anagrams

• UNDG

Middle English

Noun

dung

1. 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)

1. 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

1. dung, manure

Declension

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dungiz, *dungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).

Noun

dung m or f

1. 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

1. (archaic or literary) to tolerate

Noun

dung

1. (Confucianism) beauty, one of the t? ??c (“four virtues”) that women are supposed to have

See also

English

Noun

yelve (plural yelves)

1. (obsolete) A fork used to carry dung; such a fork used as a garden tool.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Levey, Vélye

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *jelbe.

Noun

yelve (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. European greenfinch