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dungary

dungary is the obsolete form of dungaree.

Meaning of dungaree

Noun

dungaree (countable and uncountable, plural dungarees)

  1. (uncountable) Heavy denim fabric, often blue; blue jean material.
    • This fellow was in the native costume, which is literally worse than nothing, consisting only of a straw tube, about a foot long, with a shred of blue dungaree hanging from its upper end.1833, W. F. W. Owen, Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar, volume 1, page 76
    Synonyms:
    canvas, duck, denim
  2. (plural, plural-only) Trousers or pants or overalls made from such fabric.

Forms of dungary

pluraldungaries

Questions about dungary

What is dungary the obsolete form of?
Dungary is the obsolete form of dungaree.

Words near dungary in the dictionary

  1. dungaries
  2. dungaris
  3. Dungarpur
  4. Dungarubba
  5. Dungarvan
  6. dungary
  7. Dungate
  8. Dungates
  9. dungavenhooter
  10. dungavenhooters
  11. Dungay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dungary (page history and authors); dungaree (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.

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