English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
dropping
- present participle of drop
dropping (plural droppings)
- Something dropped; a droplet. [14th C.]
1821, Henry Hunt, A peep into a prison, page 193:The information we received was, that as the roof has no gutters, the droppings of water from the roof are driven by the wind against the wall.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung. [late 16th C.]
- a rabbit dropping
- The act of something that drops or falls.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
animal excrement
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ծիրտ (hy) (cirt)
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: курешки (bg) f pl (kureški)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 糞/粪 (zh) (fèn)
- Dutch: keutel (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: jätös (fi), uloste (fi), lanta (fi), papana (fi)
- French: crotte (fr) f, fiente (fr) f (especially birds)
- Galician: cagalla (gl) f, bosta (gl) f
- German: Kot (de) m
- Greek: βερβελιές pl (verveliés)
- Ancient: σπύραθοι m pl or f pl (spúrathoi) (of goats or sheep)
- Gujarati: હગાર f (hagār) (of birds)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: मैँगनी (hi) f (maiṅgnī), मेंगनी f (meṅgnī), मेगनी (hi) f (megnī), मींगनी (hi) f (mīṅgnī), मिंगनी (hi) f (miṅgnī), बीट (hi) f (bīṭ) (especially birds)
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: escrementi (it) m pl
- Japanese: 糞 (ja) (くそ, kuso), ふん (fun)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: hamuti, hamiti, roke, tūtae, tiko, kurakura, weta
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: excrementos m pl
- Russian: помёт (ru) m (pomjót) (живо́тных), наво́з (ru) m (navóz) (manure), кака́шки (ru) f (kakáški) (colloquial)
- Scottish Gaelic: buachar m
- Sranan Tongo: kaka
- Swedish: spillning (sv) c
- Tagalog: ipot (tl)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: pislik (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: polene (wa) (poultry), stron (wa) m (especially dog and cat), schite (wa) f
- Welsh: tail (cy) m, tom (cy) f, dom (cy) m or f, baw m, cagl m, ceglyn m
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