bedung

English

Etymology

be- +‎ dung

Verb

bedung (third-person singular simple present bedungs, present participle bedunging, simple past and past participle bedunged)

1. (transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
2. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To bedaub or defile.
   • 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience

     […] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.

Anagrams

• Bugden, bunged