dung

[ duhng ]

/ dʌŋ /

noun

excrement, especially of animals; manure.

verb (used with object)

to manure (ground) with or as if with dung.

Origin of dung

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Low German, German dung; compare Icelandic dyngja heap, dung, Swedish dynga dung, muck, Old High German tunga manuring

OTHER WORDS FROM dung

dung·y, adjective

Words nearby dung

dune buggy, dune-buggy, dunedin, duneland, dunfermline, dung, dung beetle, dung fly, dungannon, dungaree, dungeness

Example sentences from the Web for dung

Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.

Oh, if These Penises and Vaginas Could Talk: Genitalia as Tools, Toys, and Weapons |Menno Schilthuizen |May 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Rhino tend to stick close to their “middens”—dung piles—and this predictably makes them even more vulnerable.

Borana Joins the Fight to Save Kenya’s Rhinos…and Wants You to Help Too |Joanna Eede |February 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Dung is to Ofili what beds are to Tracey Emin or formaldehyde is to Damien Hirst.

Chris Ofili's Art of Brightness |Olivia Cole |February 4, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
They should have eighteen inches depth of dung to bring them up, and six or seven inches depth of light rich mould.

The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, |Mary Eaton

Its presence is often unsuspected until one or more of the worms are noticed in the dung of the pig.

The Pig |Sanders Spencer
In the tent my guard lighted a fire of yak's dung, and the tent was filled with a suffocating smoke, which well-nigh choked me.

In the Forbidden Land |Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Many of the species grow in dung, as the name implies, or on recently manured ground.

The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise |M. E. Hard
The Posterior Cox are only conspicuously enlarged in some particular species (dung beetles).

Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1 |Dru Drury

British Dictionary definitions for dung

dung

/ (dʌŋ) /

noun

excrement, esp of animals; manure
(as modifier)dung cart

something filthy

verb

(tr) to cover (ground) with manure

Derived forms of dung

dungy, adjective

Word Origin for dung

Old English: prison; related to Old High German tunc cellar roofed with dung, Old Norse dyngja manure heap

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verb (used with object)

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Words nearby dung

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