dung

Noun

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

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[…]c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
   • 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 2:3
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)

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
   • a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
   • She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections
2. (transitive, calico printing) 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, […]1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68

   Synonyms:

   defecate

Verb (2)

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dung

1. A female given name from Vietnamese.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dung

1. A male given name from Vietnamese.