different between dungy vs dung

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

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