dung

See also Dung, dùng, and đúng

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old English.

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

terms derived from dung (noun)

dung beetle dung fly dung fork

dunghill dungy

Translations

manure

Albanian: pleh m., bajgë f. Armenian: գոմաղբ (hy) (gomaġb) Aromanian: baligă f. Bosnian: balega (bs) f. Bulgarian: оборски тор (bg) Catalan: adob m., fem m. Chamicuro: tuki Chinese: Mandarin: 肥 (zh) (féi), 肥料 (zh) (féiliào), 糞肥 (zh), 粪肥 (zh) (fènféi), 糞 (zh), 粪 (zh) (fèn), 屎 Croatian: gnoj m., gnojivo n. Czech: hnůj m., mrva f., trus m. Danish: gødning (da) c., møg (da) Dutch: mest (nl) m. Finnish: lanta (fi), sonta (fi) French: fumier (fr) m., purin (fr) m. Georgian: ნეხვი (ka) (nexvi), სკორე (ka) (skore) German: Dünger (de) m., Mist (de) m. Greek: κοπριά (el) (kopriá) f. Haitian Creole: fimye Hungarian: trágya (hu) Italian: escremento (it) f.,feci (it) f.,, sterco (it) m. Japanese: 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe), 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō)

Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), 똥거름 (ko) (ttong-georeum) Kurdish: Kurmanji: rîx (ku) f. Sorani: ڕیخ (ku) (ríx), پشقل (ku) (pishqil) Latin: stercus (la) Manx: eoylley (gv) Navajo: chąąʼ Pitjantjatjara: kuna Portuguese: fezes, excremento, esterco (animal); bosta, merda, cocô (vulgar) Romanian: gunoi f. and m., balegă f. Russian: навоз (ru) (navóz) m., кал (ru) (kal) m., помёт (ru) (pomjót) m. Scottish Gaelic: buachar (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: балега f. Roman: balega f. Sicilian: fumèri (scn) Slovak: hnoj (sk) m. Somali: xaar-walwaal Spanish: excremento (es) m., estiércol (es) m. Swahili: kinyezi (sw) Turkish: dışkı (tr), tezek (tr) West Frisian: dong (fy)

Verb

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
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 void excrement.

Translations

to fertilize with dung

Bulgarian: торя (bg) Finnish: lannoittaa (fi) German: düngen (de)

Russian: удобрять, унавоживать Swahili: kinyezi (sw)

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.

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Old English

Etymology 1

Proto-Germanic *dungijō, from Proto-Indo-European *dhengh- (“to cover; covering”)

Noun

dung f.

1. dungeon, prison

Declension

    Declension of dung

	Singular	Plural
nominative	dung	dyng
accusative	dung	dyng
genitive	dyng	dunga
dative	dyng	dungum

Synonyms

• dimhūs

Etymology 2

Proto-Germanic *dungō, from Proto-Indo-European *dhengh- (“to cover”). Akin to Old High German tunga "manuring" (German Dung), Low German dung, Icelandic dyngja "heap, dung", Swedish dynga "dung, muck"

Noun

dung f.

1. dung, manure

Declension

    Declension of dung (strong ō-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	dung	dunga, dunge
accusative	dunge	dunga, dunge
genitive	dunge	dunga
dative	dunge	dungum

Descendants

• English dung