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dung
/ˈdʌŋ/
verb 4noun 2name 2intj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, ancient, over, solemn, together
VERB + DUNG
assemble, bury, carved, faces, feed, filming, joke, pile
DUNG + NOUN
ball, balls, beetle, beetles, cart, ee, insects, nature
PREP.
about, in, in, on, on, upon, with, without
Definitions
noun
1
Manure; animal excrement.
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[…]
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.
2
A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
verb
1
To fertilize with dung.
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.
2
To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3
To release dung: to defecate.
[…] 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, […]
verb
1
To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — fecal matter of animals
- droppings
- muck
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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 an
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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.
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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.
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a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
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She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.
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[…] 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 ſee
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