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dung
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ding \Ding\ (d[i^]ng), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dinged, Dang (Obs.), or Dung (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Dinging.] [OE. dingen, dengen; akin to AS. dencgan to knock, Icel. dengja to beat, hammer, Sw. d["a]nga, G. dengeln.]
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To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
To ding the book a coit's distance from him.
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To cause to sound or ring.
To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.
Dung \Dung\ (d[u^]ng), n. [AS. dung; akin to G. dung, d["u]nger,
OHG. tunga, Sw. dynga; cf. Icel. dyngja heap, Dan. dynge,
MHG. tunc underground dwelling place, orig., covered with
dung. Cf. Dingy.]
The excrement of an animal.
--Bacon.
Dung \Dung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dunged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dunging.]
To manure with dung.
--Dryden.(Calico Print.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
Dung \Dung\, v. i.
To void excrement.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English dung "manure, fertilizer," common Germanic (cognates: Old Frisian and Old Saxon dung "manure;" Old High German tunga "manuring," tung "underground room covered with manure;" German Dung; Old Norse dyngja "heap of manure, women's apartment; Swedish dynga "dung, muck;" Danish dynge "heap, mass, pile"), perhaps from a PIE *dhengh- "covering" (cognates: Lithuanian dengti "to cover," Old Irish dingim "I press").\n
\nThe word recalls the ancient Germanic custom (reported by Tacitus) of covering underground shelters with manure to keep in warmth in winter. The meaning "animal excrement," whether used as fertilizer or not, is from late 13c.The whole body of journeymen tailors is divided into two classes, denominated Flints and Dungs: the former work by the day and receive all equal wages; the latter work generally by the piece [1824].\nDung beetle attested by 1630s. In colloquial American English, tumble-bug. An Old English word for it was tordwifel "turd weevil."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) manure; animal excrement. 2 (context countable English) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fertilize with dung. 2 (context transitive calico printing English) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. 3 (context intransitive English) To void excrement. Etymology 2
vb. (context obsolete English) (past participle of ding English) Etymology 3
vb. (context colloquial English) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dung may refer to:
- Dung, animal feces
- Manure
- Cow dung
- Coprolite, fossilized feces
- The Dung beetle
- Dung, Doubs, a commune in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France
- Mundungus Fletcher or "Dung", a character in the Harry Potter novels
- The Dung, percussionist and singer for the Swedish folk music duet Philemon Arthur and the Dung
- Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnamese communist politician
- Carburetor Dung, a Malaysian punk band which is also known as "DUNG"
Usage examples of "dung".
They picked up the eyes of the cattle in little bright points of light, fat contented beasts, the smell of their dung sharp and ammoniac al on the cool night air.
He should have given the last of his baht to the Dung Lord and rented body-space in an apartment with windows facing east so that he could see the rising sun, and wake early.
On the highest point of the bowlder shown on the right of the plan there is a fragment of compacted sheep dung and soil, which is now 6 feet above the ground.
Afterward, they had covered their tracks, setting up a false trail beside the river with caiman dung and prints.
I imagine the compound must act like caiman dung, a scent repellent to the giant cats.
Already they could smell the animals on the night air: the stench of their fish laden dung was chokingly powerful.
The thin air here smelled of wood smoke instead of dung fires, and the sharp green aroma of deodar was intoxicating.
It looked as though he might have - he was enshelled in a crust of mud, dung and ash, his hair so matted that it was more like clay than anything else.
The crown of the tree had broken off sometime in the previous century, and the mossy stout cylinder of it lay remnant on the ground nearby, slowly melting into the dirt, so soft with rot that you could have kicked it apart like an old dung pile and watched the hister beetles scuttle away.
They found the discomfort of sleeping on wet, rocky ground, or marching for weeks across a waterless wasteland exciting, and they enjoyed nothing so much as drinking koumiss or wine until they lost all sense of dignity and woke the next day with empty pockets, a mouth that tasted like sheep dung, and a headache the size of an Indian elephant.
Then the men of the towne called in their dogs, and took me and bound mee to the staple of a post, and scourged me with a great knotted whip till I was well nigh dead, and they would undoubtedly have slaine me, had it not come to passe, that what with the paine of their beating, and the greene hearbes that lay in my guts, I caught such a laske that I all besprinkled their faces with my liquid dung, and enforced them to leave off.
Did he think he was so much better than her that he could treat her like Liger dung and not have to face the consequences of his actions?
There was a power plant that ran on methane, to judge by the pile of animal dung neaped next to it, and a great big metal doughnut, still sitting in half of the crate it had come in, that looked like the makings of a small fusion generator.
The reem impaled him on both her horns, shook him loose, and kicked him into a gully like a pancake pile of steaming dung.
In his dwelling on the slope the reem found Ngai febrile and shrunken, no bigger than a dung beetle.