dung

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

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From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

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.

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 John Dryden to this entry?)

   • 1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections

     She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.

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 release dung: to defecate.

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate

See ding

dung

1. (obsolete) past participle of ding

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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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dung

1. Alternative form of donge

• IPA^(key): /dunɡ/, [duŋɡ]

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

• ding

dung f (nominative plural dyng)

1. dungeon, prison

• dimhūs

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

• ding

dung f

1. dung, manure

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

dung m or f

1. weaving, weavingroom

• dong

Sino-Vietnamese word from 容 (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese 婦容 (phụ dung, “wifely look”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Homophones: Dung, giun, vun, vung

dung

1. (archaic or literary) to tolerate

   trời không dung, đất không tha

   the sky doesn't tolerate it, the earth doesn't forgive it

dung

1. (Confucianism) beauty, one of the tứ đức (“four virtues”) that women are supposed to have