dropping

English

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Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Hyphenation: drop‧ping

dropping

dropping (plural droppings)

Something dropped. [14th C.]
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
(usually in the plural) A piece of animal excrement; dung. [late 16th C.]
a rabbit dropping
The act of something that drops or falls.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 36:
  At length, after several droppings asleep, […] Mr. Dowler made up his mind that he would throw himself on the bed […]

animal excrement

Armenian: ծիրտ (hy) (cirt)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 糞／粪 (zh) (fèn), 粪 (zh) (fèn)
French: crotte (fr) f, fiente (fr) f (especially birds)
Galician: cagalla (gl) f, bosta (gl) f
German: Kot (de) m
Greek: βερβελιές pl (verveliés)
Gujarati: હગાર f (hagār) (of birds)
Hindi: मैँगनी (hi) f (ma͠ignī), मेंगनी f (meṅgnī), मेगनी (hi) f (megnī), मींगनी (hi) f (mīṅgnī), मिंगनी (hi) f (miṅgnī), बीट (hi) f (bīṭ) (especially birds)
Italian: escrementi (it) m pl
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Japanese: 糞 (ja) (くそ, kuso), ふん (fun)
Maori: hamuti, hamiti, roke, tūtae, tiko, kurakura, weta
Portuguese: excrementos m pl
Russian: помёт (ru) m (pomjót) (живо́тных), наво́з (ru) m (navóz) (manure), кака́шки (ru) f (kakáški) (colloquial)
Scottish Gaelic: buachar m
Swedish: spillning (sv) c
Tagalog: ipot (tl)
Walloon: polene (wa) (poultry), stron (wa) m (especially dog and cat), schite (wa) f