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Dung

//ˈdʌŋ// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”). alt-of, alternative
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Vietnamese.
  2. 2
    A male given name from Vietnamese.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    fecal matter of animals wordnet
  3. 3
    A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. countable
Verb
  1. 1
    To fertilize with dung. transitive

    "a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground"

  2. 2
    past participle of ding form-of, obsolete, participle, past
  3. 3
    To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. colloquial
  4. 4
    defecate; used of animals wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    fertilize or dress with dung wordnet
  2. 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, […]"

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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).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

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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).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 3

See ding

Etymology 4

unknown

Etymology 5

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dung.

Etymology 7

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dũng.

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