see|Dung
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Etymology
Middle English from Old English.

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��|-��

Noun
en-noun|dungs|-

1. Manure; animal excrement.
2. countable A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

#: Quotations
#:* 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.  — Malichi 2:3.
#:* 1605: 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... — William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene IV, line 129.
#:* 1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 496.

Derived terms
dung beetle
dung fly
dung fork
dunghill
dungy

Translations

Slovak: hnoj m
Somali: xaar-walwaal
Spanish: excremento m, estiércol m

Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To fertilize with dung.
2. transitive (Calico Printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3. intransitive To void excrement.

Translations
trans-top|to fertilize with dung
Finnish: lannoittaa
German: düngen
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Russian: �доб����, �навожива��
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