dung

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

past participle of ding

Verb

To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Intj

Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).

Synonyms

excrement

manure

muck

faeces

feces

droppings

stool

shit

💩

fertilizer

night soil

ordure

fertiliser

excrements

excreta

crap

guano

dropping

waste

animal excrement

rubbish

scat

trash

turd

animal droppings

fecal matter

shite

topdress

stable manure

cow-dung

void excrement

farmyard manure

animal manures

fym

to eject excrement

feces

compost

faeces

corpse

defaecate

defecate

defecation

dirt

dress

👗

excrete

excretion

feed

fertilise

fertilize

filth

garbage

🗑️

Translations

fumier

sterco

estiércol

Mist

letame

Dünger

Dung

mest

esterco

κοπριά

gübre

düngen

bosta

ontlasting

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdʌŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dung, dunge, donge

Inherited from Old English: dung

In summary

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).