Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The excrement of animals.
- n. Manure.
- n. Something foul or abhorrent.
- v. To fertilize (land) with manure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The excrement of animals; ordure; feces.
- To cover with dung; manure with or as with dung.
- In calico-printing, to immerse in a bath of cow-dung and warm water in order to remove the superfluous mordant.
- To void excrement.
- Preterit and past participle of ding.
Wiktionary
- n. Manure; animal excrement.
- n. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
- n. dungeon, prison
- n. dung, manure
- v. To fertilize with dung.
- v. To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- v. To void excrement.
- v. Past participle of ding.
- v. To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The excrement of an animal.
- v. To manure with dung.
- v. To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- v. To void excrement.
WordNet 3.0
- v. defecate; used of animals
- v. fertilize or dress with dung
- n. fecal matter of animals
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English.
Examples
“Merryn Dineley, a historian from Manchester University and chief brewer of the ancient liquor, insists that the dung is an essential component of the original flavour.”
“BTW, "dung" is in the King James Bible (aka God's Word according to some literalists), whereupon we find this coprophiliac passage in Isaiah 36: 12:”
“Well, try working with us and not rubbing our noses in dung for a change!”
Israeli defense minister expresses worries about relations with U.S.
“In the 1860s, there was widespread concern that, by the turn of the century, there would be an insufficient number of people to go round picking up all the horse dung from the carriages.”
“Jason had too, at first, but they lost their novelty when you were shovelling several times your own weight in dung a day.”
“Hinduism reveres the cow, and its dung is used in the countryside as both a disinfectant and as fuel.”
“A mixture of coal dust and organic material, primarily cattle dung is formed into patties and then slapped against the wall to dry.”
“Palm oil and sugar cane are the dominant crops in the region, but everything from coconuts to castor oil to cow dung is being tested for fossil-fuel alternatives such as ethanol and biodiesel.”
“The cloth would then be cleared — soaked in dung or a similar substance — and then washed and dried.”
“And I KNOW what cow dung is cause i've done STEPPED in it !”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dung’.
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Punch Lines
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 376 more...
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Everything Comes Down to Poo
poop, poo, feces, excrement, shit, crap, dung, droppings, guano, manure, waste, stool and 6 more...
ruzuzu "Preterit and past participle of ding." --Cent. Dict. Apr 22, 2011
ruzuzu See cleanse. (BTW, I am never wearing calico again.) Apr 21, 2011
chained_bear I did not know that "dung" could also be an abbreviation. Usage here. Oct 23, 2008
bilby Lol, skip! Sep 26, 2008
reesetee It is. It's WeirdNet.
We don't dress with it here, uselessness. It's not warm enough.
Eeew. Nov 8, 2007
chained_bear Why is it a verb? Sheesh. WordNet is weird. Nov 8, 2007
uselessness It's quite fashionable here in New Mexico. I thought everyone dressed with it? Nov 8, 2007
reesetee Eeew.
Hey, who dresses with dung these days, anyway? And who writes those definitions up there? Nov 8, 2007
skipvia What's brown and sounds like a bell? Nov 8, 2007