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dung

UK/ˈdʌŋ/ US/dʊŋ/ fairly common slang uk
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

fecal matter of animals

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verb

1.

fertilize or dress with dung

  • “you must dung the land”
2.

defecate; used of animals

Origin

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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).

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