- excrement, esp of animals; manure
- something filthy
- (transitive) to cover (ground) with manure
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dung
(dung),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
dung′y, adj.
- Zoologyexcrement, esp. of animals;
manure.
v.t.
- to manure (ground) with or as if with dung.
- bef. 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
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dung /dʌŋ/ n
'dung' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
blowfly
- bushfly
- copro-
- cowpat
- daglock
- dingy
- droppings
- dunnakin
- guano
- muck
- Ofili
- ordure
- poppycock
- scarabaeid
- shit
- stercoraceous
- ted
- tumbrel
- turd
- wattle and daub
- asafetida
- battledore
- bois de vache
- buffalo chips
- carbine
- chip
- cock
- coprophagous
- coprophilous
- cow cake
- cow chips
- cow flop
- cow pie
- devil's dung
- dingle
- dingleberry
- dor
- dreck
- dropping
- dung beetle
- dunghill
- encopresis
- fimicolous
- gore
- merdivorous
- muckrake
- muckworm
- parget
- tumblebug
- scat