Dung

Quick meaning: Dung is a noun meaning (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.

Meaning

(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
2. (countable, UK, slang, obsolete) A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.
3. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
4. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
5. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
6. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
7. (obsolete) past participle of ding

Example Sentences

a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• dungs
• dunging
• dunged

Synonyms for dung

Depending on context, synonyms include defecate, droppings, muck.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include muck, droppings, manure, crap, fertiliser, excrement.

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