different between dungy vs dingy

English

Etymology

dung +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

dungy (comparative dungier, superlative dungiest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of dung.
   • 1813, Charles Marshall - A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening: With Hints on Fish-ponds - Page 354

     […] they may not be drawn up long legged; and by no means to let them have a dungy soil to grow in, or a very rich one […]

2. Covered in dung
   • 1999, J. F. Gracey, David S. Collins, Robert J. Huey - Meat Hygiene page 167

     If, however, excessively dungy animals are offered for transportation, the owner of the animals is requested to clean them.

Anagrams

• Gundy, gundy, nudgy

English

Etymology 1

From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from an unrecorded Middle English *dingy, *düngy, from Old English *dyncgi? (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of Old English duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?n.d?i/

Adjective

dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)

1. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Household Words

     He led her at last into a dingy sanctum, dimly lighted by one shaded lamp. In this safe there were piles of dingy papers and more dingy ledgers ; with great piles of accounts on hooks in the wall

Synonyms

• (drab): dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grimy

Antonyms

• (drab): bright, clean

Derived terms

• dingily
• dinginess

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dingy (plural dingies)

1. Alternative form of dinghy

References

• dingy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dingy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• dying