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dung

noun
/ˈdʌŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).

  1. derived from *dʰengʰ-✻ — “to cover”
  2. inherited from *dungō✻ — “dung”
  3. inherited from *dungu✻
  4. inherited from dung — “dung; excrement; manure”
  5. inherited from dung, dunge, donge

Definitions

  1. Manure

    Manure; animal excrement.

    • 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.

  2. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

  3. A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. 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. To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to…

      To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

    3. To release dung

      To release dung: to defecate.

    4. past participle of ding

    5. To discard (especially rubbish)

      To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

    6. Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).

    7. A female given name from Vietnamese.

    8. A male given name from Vietnamese.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dung. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dung. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dung

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA