Dung
intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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
- 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, […]"
- 1 Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”). alt-of, alternative
- 1 A female given name from Vietnamese.
- 2 A male given name from Vietnamese.
Antonyms
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More examples"Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel."
Etymology
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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).
See ding
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Onomatopoeic.
Borrowed from Vietnamese Dung.
Borrowed from Vietnamese Dũng.