Dung

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Middle English, from Old English.

Full definition of dung

Noun

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
• 1605, William Shakespeare, , act III, scene iv, line 129Poor 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 2:3Behold, 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 496The 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.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
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 void excrement.

See ding

Verb

1. (obsolete) Past participle of ding

unknown

Verb

1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.----