Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To defecate; dung: a hunting term applied especially to foxes.
  • noun Dung, especially that of the fox.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To void excrement.
  • noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. Dung.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dung
  • verb to void excrement

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  • "The dung of a dog or fox." (OED) It can also be a verb, "Of a dog or fox: To evacuate the fæces. Also jocularly of a person." See also the delightful verb bescumber, which doesn't mean quite the same thing.

    May 6, 2008

  • The dung of the fox. —Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850

    September 29, 2015