dung
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌŋ
[edit] Etymology 1
Middle English, from Old English.
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dung (countable and uncountable; plural dungs)
- 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.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene iv, line 129
- (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
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to dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- (transitive, Calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To void excrement.
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[edit] Etymology 2
See ding
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dung
[edit] Etymology 3
unknown
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to dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)
- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
[edit] Old English
[edit] Etymology 1
Proto-Germanic *dungjo from Proto-Indo-European *dhengh- (“‘to cover; covering’”)
[edit] Noun
dung f.
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| nominative | dung | dyng |
| accusative | dung | dyng |
| genitive | dyng | dunga |
| dative | dyng | dungum |
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[edit] Etymology 2
Proto-Germanic *dung- from Proto-Indo-European *dhengh- (“‘to cover’”). Akin to Old High German tunga "manuring" (German Dung), Low Saxon dung, Icelandic dyngja "heap, dung", Swedish dynga "dung, muck"
[edit] Noun
dung f.
- dung, manure
[edit] Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
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| nominative | dung | dunga |
| accusative | dunge | dunga |
| genitive | dunge | dunga |
| dative | dunge | dungum |
[edit] Descendants
- English dung