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
- v. colloquial To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
- v. obsolete Past participle of ding
- n. uncountable Manure; animal excrement.
- n. countable A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
- v. transitive To fertilize with dung.
- v. transitive, Calico printing To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- v. intransitive To void excrement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The excrement of an animal.
- v. To manure with dung.
- v. (Calico Print.) 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
- unknown (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Punch Lines
I'm terrible with jokes - maybe a list of punch lines will help.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 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...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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Jamaican patois
"I and I plant the corn..."
i and i, rudeboy, ragamuffin, youth, dem, jamrock, jamden, fat 'matic, likkle, tuff, whe, inna and 132 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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Words from "The Ghost Map"
"The Ghost Map", by steven Johnson, is a fascinating account of the (successful) investigation by two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, into the means by which cholera is transmitted, following t...
ghost map, epidemiology, dot map, voronoi diagram, index case, cholera, experimentum crucis, vibrio cholerae, microbe, germ theory, public health, animalcula and 61 more...
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Quilp's Words
ankh, bung, zest, yawl, xeno, wart, vile, urge, tart, shag, runt, quim and 16 more...
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words i will use as insults
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buttface, butthole surfer, poopyhead, dung, pukka, sushi, teriyaki
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airplaneguy32's Words
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GWhitman's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dung.
bilby Probably image filter at work. Mar 11, 2013
blafferty I am surprised at the pictures here. I'm fairly sure only one of those features dung (the noun) in its most common usage. Mar 7, 2013
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