Word.ws English Dictionary

cow-dung

cow-dung is the alternative spelling of cowdung.

Meaning of cowdung

Noun

cowdung (uncountable)

  1. The excrement of a cow.
    • The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.1912, Central Provinces (India), Central Provinces District Gazetteers, page 96

Questions about cow-dung

What is cow-dung the alternative spelling of?
Cow-dung is the alternative spelling of cowdung.

Words near cow-dung in the dictionary

  1. cow-chips
  2. cow-clicker
  3. cow-clickers
  4. cow-creamer
  5. cow-creamers
  6. cow-dung
  7. cow-eyed
  8. cow-handed
  9. cow-hearted
  10. cow-hocked
  11. cow-juice

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cow-dung (page history and authors); cowdung (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cow-dung.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cow-dung. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.