What does "dung" mean?
Manure; animal excrement.
Dung
/ˈdʌŋ/ intj, name, noun, verb, slang
intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Manure; animal excrement.
- Grammar: dung is listed as intj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: droppings, ammonia, bm, bowel movement.
- Useful contrasts: synthetic fertilizer.
- Usage evidence: Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Manure; animal excrement. uncountable
"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[…]"
- 2 fecal matter of animals wordnet
- 3 A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. countable
Verb
- 1 To fertilize with dung. transitive
"a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground"
- 2 past participle of ding form-of, obsolete, participle, past
- 3 To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. colloquial
- 4 defecate; used of animals wordnet
- 5 To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. transitive
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- 6 fertilize or dress with dung wordnet
- 7 To release dung: to defecate. intransitive
"[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]"
Intj
- 1 Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”). alt-of, alternative
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name from Vietnamese.
- 2 A male given name from Vietnamese.
Synonyms
All synonymsAntonyms
synthetic fertilizer
Example
"Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "dung"?
Common synonyms include: droppings, ammonia, bm, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca.
How do you use "dung" in a sentence?
Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.
How do you pronounce "dung"?
Pronounced /ˈdʌŋ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).
Etymology 2
See ding
Etymology 3
unknown
Etymology 4
Onomatopoeic.
Etymology 5
Borrowed from Vietnamese Dung.
Etymology 6
Borrowed from Vietnamese Dũng.