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-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.

   • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59:

     The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!

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.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 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.
   • 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎^[1], The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:

     […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

• (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.

Onomatopoeic.

dung

1. Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).

• dung tag

• UNDG

dung

1. alternative form of donge (“dung”)

dung

1. alternative form of donge (“Hell”)

• IPA^(key): /dunɡ/, [duŋɡ]

From Proto-West Germanic *dung (“cellar”).

• dinġ — dative and genitive singular; nominative and accusative plural

dung f (nominative plural dynġ)

1. dungeon, prison

Strong consonant stem:

• dimhūs

• Middle English: donge, dung, dunge
• → Anglo-Norman: donjun (semantic loan)

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

• ding

dung f

1. dung, manure

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: donge, dong, donke, doung, dounge, dung, dunge
  • English: dung
  • Scots: dung

From Proto-West Germanic *dung (“cellar”).

dung m or f

1. weaving, weavingroom

• Middle Low German: dunk, dunc

• (Northern Vietnam) dong

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

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

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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