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 (sq) m, bajgë (sq) f
• Armenian: գոմաղբ (hy) (gomaġb)
• Aromanian: baligă (rup) f
• Bulgarian: оборски тор (bg) (oborski tor)
• Burmese: ချေး (my) (chi:)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m, fem (ca) m
• Chamicuro: tuki
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥 (cmn) (féi), 肥料 (cmn) (féiliào), 糞肥 (cmn), 粪肥 (cmn) (fènféi), 糞 (cmn), 粪 (cmn) (fèn), 屎 (cmn)

• Czech: hnůj (cs) m, mrva (cs) f, trus (cs) m
• Danish: gødning (da) c, møg (da)
• Dutch: mest (nl) m
• Finnish: lanta (fi), sonta (fi)
• French: fumier (fr) m, purin (fr) m
• Galician: esterco (gl) 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)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: chąąʼ
• Pitjantjatjara: kuna
• Portuguese: fezes (pt), excremento (pt), esterco (pt) (animal), bosta (pt), merda (pt), cocô (pt)(vulgar)
• Romanian: gunoi (ro) f and m, balegă (ro) f
• Russian: навоз (ru) (navóz) m, кал (ru) (kal) m, помёт (ru) (pomjót) m
• Scottish Gaelic: buachar (gd) m, todhar (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: балега (sh) f, гној (sh) m, гнојиво (sh) n

  Roman: balega (sh) f, gnoj (sh) m, gnojivo (sh) n

• Sicilian: fumèri (scn)
• Slovak: hnoj (sk) m
• Somali: xaar-walwaal (so)
• Spanish: excremento (es) m, estiércol (es) m
• Swahili: kinyezi (sw)
• Turkish: dışkı (tr), tezek (tr)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

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) (torja)
• Finnish: lannoittaa (fi)
• Galician: estercar (gl)
• German: düngen (de)

• Greek: κοπρίζω (el) (koprízo), λιπαίνω (el) (lipaíno)
• Russian: удобрять (ru) (udobrjat'), унавоживать (ru) (unavoživat')
• 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”)

Alternative forms

• ding

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"

Alternative forms

• ding

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

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dungiz, *dungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

Noun

dung m

1. weaving, weavingroom