dung

noun

1. (uncountable)Manure; animal excrement.

   “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[…]”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!”

2. (countable)A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
3. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang)A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.

verb

1. (transitive)To fertilize with dung.

   “a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground”

   “She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.”

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.

   “[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]”

4. (form-of, obsolete, participle, past)past participle of ding
5. (colloquial)To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

intj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).

name

1. A female given name from Vietnamese.
2. A male given name from Vietnamese.