Dung

Noun

 * 1)  Manure; animal excrement.
 * 2) * 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene iv, line 129
 * 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
 * 1) * 1611, Authorized King James Version, Malachi 2:3
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496
 * 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.
 * 1)  A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Derived terms

 * dung beetle
 * dung fly
 * dung fork


 * dunghill
 * dungy

Verb

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

Verb
dung



Verb

 * 1)  To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Thesaurus
BM, ammonia, bowel movement, buffalo chips, ca-ca, castor-bean meal, commercial fertilizer, compost, coprolite, coprolith, cow, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, defecation, dingleberry, dressing, droppings, enrichener, excrement, feces, feculence, fertilizer, guano, jakes, manure, movement, muck, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, ordure, organic fertilizer, phosphate, sewage, sewerage, shit, stool, superphosphate, turd

Etymology 1
, from.

Etymology 2
See ding

Etymology 3
unknown

Noun

 * Albanian: pleh, bajgë
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: baligă
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: оборски тор
 * Catalan: adob, fem
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 肥, 肥料, 糞肥, 粪肥, 糞, 粪
 * Croatian: gnoj, gnojivo
 * Czech: hnůj, mrva , trus
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ნეხვი, სკორე
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,,,


 * Japanese: 肥, 肥料
 * Korean: 똥, 똥거름
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani: ڕیخ, پشقل
 * Manx:
 * Navajo:
 * Pitjantjatjara: kuna
 * Portuguese: fezes, excremento, esterco (animal); bosta, merda, cocô
 * Romanian: gunoi and, balegă
 * Russian: навоз, кал, помёт
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: балега
 * Roman: balega
 * Sicilian: fumèri
 * Slovak:
 * Somali: xaar-walwaal
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:, tezek
 * West Frisian:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: торя
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Russian: удобрять, унавоживать
 * Swahili:

Etymology 1
from

Noun

 * 1) dungeon, prison

Synonyms

 * dimhūs

Etymology 2
from. Akin to tunga "manuring" ( Dung),  dung,  dyngja "heap, dung",  dynga "dung, muck"

Noun

 * 1) dung, manure

Descendants

 * English dung