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Definition: Dung |
DungNoun1. Fecal matter of animals. Verb1. Fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land". 2. Defecate, used of an animal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Dung" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be brave". |
Date "dung" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Dung \Dung\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Dunged; Dunging.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Dung (1.) Used as manure (Luke 13:8); collected outside the city walls (Neh. 2:13). Of sacrifices, burned outside the camp (Ex. 29:14; Lev. 4:11; 8:17; Num. 19:5). To be "cast out as dung," a figurative expression (1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 9:37; Jer. 8:2; Ps. 18:42), meaning to be rejected as unprofitable. (2.) Used as fuel, a substitute for firewood, which was with difficulty procured in Syria, Arabia, and Egypt (Ezek. 4:12-15), where cows' and camels' dung is used to the present day for this purpose. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Mixture of droppings(dung)and urine, and possibly also bedding occuring in connection with a cowshed; cf. solid manure, liquid manure, night soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DungSynonyms: droppings (n), muck (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Tell me, Jerome, if a piss drunk sergeant has a loaded .45 pointed at the head of a piece of dung that the piss drunk sergeant hates and despises, how would you describe the situation (Biloxi Blues; writing credit: Neil Simon) Burglekutt, you're troll dung! (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas) Yak dung! hope tastes good - like a cigarette should (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod) And you spell like a dung heap (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson.) There's 30 dead people with Rhino tramps all over them, there's a lock up with 2 foot pile of Rhino dung and Charlton Heston suspects the butler (Only Fools and Horses; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yun pei dung lung (1993) Dung fong tuk ying (1986) | |
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Desiderius Erasmus | They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. |
Heraclitus | Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | There was a cow dung in the path, and I must needs try my activity by attempting to leap over it. |
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Economic History | Vietnam | Four--Phan Van Khai, Nguyen Tan Dung, Le Minh Huong, and Pham Van Tra--of the Politburo members concurrently hold high positions in the government. (references) |
Trade | Trinidad | Certain knives, firearms, weapons and explosives, seditious publications, specific animals, such as monkeys and the mongoose, animals that have died in transit, used or second-hand animal blankets, saddle cloths, felting or pads, and dung, are also prohibited by law from importation. (references) |
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| "Dung" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dung" is used about 223 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 223 | 20,178 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dung" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dung | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,803 |
| Dung | Last name | 130 | 57,513 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dung": cow dung ♦ dog's dung ♦ Dove's dung ♦ dung beetle ♦ dung fork ♦ dung heap ♦ dung hill ♦ horse dung. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dung": dung-beetles, dung-caked, dung-collector, dung-coloured, dung-dwelling, dung-faced, dung-flies, Dung-gate, dung-hai, dung-heap, dung-heaps, Dung-hill, dung-hills, dung-like, dung-mimicking, dung-spattered. | |
Ending with "dung": cow-dung, horse-dung. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dung"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | akka (excrement). (various references) | |
Albanian | plehëroj (fertilize, manure), pleh kafshësh (manure), bajgë (droppings, ordure). (various references) | |
Arabic | سمد بالروث (muck), روث (dropping, droppings, manure, muck, turd). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | торя (compost, dress, fat, fertilize, manure, muck, nourish), животински тор. (various references) | |
Chinese | 糞 (manure). (various references) | |
Czech | hnùj (manure, muck). (various references) | |
Danish | dyrisk gødning (animal excreta), staldgoedning (barn manure, barn yard manure, farmyard manure, fold yard manure, manure, stable manure), organisk goedning (dressing, manure, muck), naturgoedning (dressing, manure, muck), moeg (faecal matter, faeces, feces), lort (excrement), goedning (dressing, manure, muck), fæces (faecal matter, faeces, feces), ekskrementer (excrements, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feces), animalsk goedning (faecal matter, faeces, feces). (various references) | |
Dutch | ontlasting (excrement), keutel (excrement), drol (excrement), drek (dirt, excrement, mud, slime). (various references) | |
Esperanto | feko (excrement), fekaĵo (excrement). (various references) | |
Farsi | پشکل , کوددادن (Compost, Manure), کود (Muck), سرگین (Muck). (various references) | |
Finnish | lanta (droppings, excrement, manure). (various references) | |
French | matières fécales, fumier d'animaux, fumier d'étable, fumier, fèces, excrément, engraisser par crotte, crotte. (various references) | |
German | Mist (blow, bother, cobblers, crap, droppings, fertilizer, garbage, manure, muck, punk, rats, rubbish, shucks, trash, tripe), Dung (manure, muck). (various references) | |
Greek | κοπριά (manure, muck). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אשפ" (dirt, dunghill, garbage, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), זבל (compost, excrement, garbage, manure, ordure, rubbish, trash), חר" (excrement), "ומן (excrement), 'לל (because of, excrement, for the sake of, ordure, turd), צוא" (excrement, faeces, filth, ordure, stool, turd), צפיע (excrement), צא" (excrement), סוח" (filth, garbage, rubbish), סחי (dirt, filth, rubbish). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trágya (chip, excrement, fertilizer, manure, muck, ordure). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tinja (excretion, faeces), tahi (muck), rabuk. (various references) | |
Italian | sterco (droppings), letame (manure, muck), concime (compost, manure, muck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肥やし (fertiliser, manure, night soil), 肥 (fertiliser, manure, night soil). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "やし (fertiliser, manure, night soil), "え (fertiliser, manure, night soil, voice). (various references) | |
Manx | toarrey (manure, stools), toarey (derivative, produce, product), taarey (dunging, faeces), taa, lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), keckey (defecate, defecation, dunging, excrete, excretion), keck (crap, droppings, excrement, faeces, ordure), jannoo keck (defecate, defecation), gaerr (diarrhoea, ordure), eoyllaghey (manure, manuring), cugh (excrement). (various references) | |
Maya | kuklin (dung beetle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | naturgjødsel. (various references) | |
Papiamen | pupu (defecate, excrement). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ungday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | excremento (excrement, ordure, rejectamenta), estrume (chip, fertilizer). (various references) | |
Romanian | spurcãciune (dirt, excrements, filth), scârnãvie (dirt, vileness), scârnã (excrement, faeces), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), gunoi (carrion, dirt, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), baligã, bãligar (dunghill). (various references) | |
Russian | навоз (manure, muck, ordure), помет (litter). (various references) | |
Scottish | todhar (a field manured by, manure), innear (manure), giodar, aolach (manure). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nađubren (fertilized, soiled), đubriti (fertilize, manure), đubre (fertilizer, garbage, junk, laystall, muck, offscourings, ordure, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references) | |
Spanish | estiércol (manure, muck, ordure), freza (seed, spat, spawn), excremento (excrement, excreta). (various references) | |
Sranan | kunkun (defecate, excrement), kaka (defecate, excrement, rooster). (various references) | |
Swahili | choo (excrement, latrine). (various references) | |
Swedish | gödsel (manure), dynga (fertilizer, manure, muck, ordure), träck (excrement), gödsla (fertilize, manure, muck). (various references) | |
Thai | มูลสัตว์ (doo(-doo)). (various references) | |
Turkish | bok (crap, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, turd). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tezek (droppings). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | угно"ння, кал (faeces), гній (atter, manure, matter, muck, ordure, purulence, pus, soil). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điều nhơ bẩn. (various references) | |
Welsh | tom (dirt, mire), teilo (manure), tail (manure), biswail, baw (dirt, filth, mire). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ta' (excrement). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | murgu, e. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fimo, fimum, fimus, merda. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | guano. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 13, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de apokriqeiV legei autw kurie afeV authn kai touto to etoV ewV otou skayw peri authn kai balw koprian |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At ille respondens dixit illi domine dimitte illam et hoc anno usque dum fodiam circa illam et mittam stercora |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa cwæþ he. hlaford. læt hine gyt þis gear. oð ic hine bedelfe and ic hine bewurpe mid meoxe: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he answerynge seide to hym, Lord, suffre it also this yeer, the while Y delue aboute it, and Y schal donge it; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he answered and sayde vnto him: lorde let it alone this yeare also till I digge rounde aboute it and doge it to se |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he answering, said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 13, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Siya mitubag kaniya, `Senyor, pasagdi lang siya niining tuiga usab, hangtud kapalibutan ko kinig kalot ug kaabunohan ko kini. |
| Croatian | A on mu odgovori: 'Gospodaru, ostavi je još ove godine dok je ne okopam i ne pognojim. |
| Danish | Men han svarede og sagde til ham: Herre! lad det stå endnu dette År, indtil jeg får gravet om det og gødet det; |
| Dutch | En hij, antwoordende, zeide tot hem: Heer, laat hem ook nog dit jaar, totdat ik om hem gegraven en mest gelegd zal hebben; |
| Finnish | Mutta tämä vastasi ja sanoi hänelle: `Herra, anna sen olla vielä tämä vuosi; sillä aikaa minä kuokin ja lannoitan maan sen ympäriltä. |
| French | Le vigneron lui répondit: Seigneur, laisse-le encore cette année; je creuserai tout autour, et j`y mettrai du fumier. |
| German | Er aber antwortete und sprach zu ihm: Herr, laß ihn noch dies Jahr, bis daß ich um ihn grabe und bedünge ihn, |
| Hungarian | Az pedig felelvén, monda néki: Uram, hagyj békét néki még ez esztendõben, míg köröskörül megkapálom és megtrágyázom: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi tukang kebun itu menjawab, 'Biarkanlah ia tumbuh setahun ini lagi, Tuan. Saya akan mencangkuli tanah sekelilingnya dan menaruh pupuk. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ia pun menyahut sambil berkata kepadanya: Ya Tuan, biarkanlah dia lagi tahun ini, sehingga sahaya mencangkul kelilingnya dan membajakkan dia, |
| Italian | Ma quegli rispose: Padrone, lascialo ancora quest'anno finché io gli zappi attorno e vi metta il concime |
| Manx Gaelic | As dreggyr eshyn as dooyrt eh rish, Hiarn, lhig da shassoo blein elley, derrey neem's reurey mygeayrt y mysh as lhiassaghey eh. |
| Maori | Na ka whakahoki tera, ka mea ki a ia, E te ariki, waiho ano hoki i tenei tau, kia keria ra ano e ahau nga taha, kia maka hoki he wairakau: |
| Norwegian | Men han svarte ham: Herre! la det ennu stå dette år, til jeg får gravd omkring det og lagt gjødning på, |
| Portuguese | Respondeu-lhe ele: Senhor, deixa-a este ano ainda, até que eu cave em derredor, e lhe deite estrume; |
| Rumanian | ,Doamne`, i -a rqspuns vierul, ,mai lasq -l wi anul acesta; am sq -l sap de jur kmprejur, wi am sq -i pun gunoi la rqdqcinq. |
| Russian | оП ПО УЛБЪБМ ЕНХ Ч ПФЧЕФ: ЗПУ П"ЙО! ПУФБЧШ ЕЕ Й ОБ ЬФПФ ЗП", ПЛБ С ПЛП БА ЕЕ Й П'МПЦХ ОБЧПЪПН, -- |
| Shuar | Tutai Ajá Wáinin timiai "Atsá, Uuntá; ju uwitin Wajastí. Wajamurin takarsatjai tura pénker nunkan matsatkatjai. |
| Swahili | Lakini naye akamjibu: `Bwana, tuuache tena mwaka huu; nitauzungushia mtaro na kuutilia mbolea. |
| Swedish | Men vingårdsmannen svarade och sade till honom: 'Herre, låt det stå kvar också detta år, för att jag under tiden må gräva omkring det och göda det; |
| Uma | "Na'uli' tompodoo pampa toei: `Pelele' -mi ulu tuwu' hampae toi-pi Maradika. Kukawahi-damo, pai' kutaui' tana' to morudu' ngkai mali-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dung": dungaree, dungarees, dunged, dungeon, dungeoned, dungeoning, dungeons, dunghill, dunghills, dungier, dungiest, dunging, dungs, dungy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dung": bildungsroman, bildungsromane, bildungsromans, mundungo, mundungos, mundungus, mundunguses. (additional references) | |
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"Dung" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adugna, Cung, dahg, Dangu, degn, deng, Dhung, dnag, dnu, Donagh, Dongo, dongy, Donogh, Duagh, Dugny, dumgy, dumn, duna, dunc, dund, d'ung, dungi, dungs, Dunja, dunp, dunt, dunw, durg, durng, duun, Duyn, Ndong, ndongo, nung, udag, Udn, ung, wung. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dung" (pronounced du"ng) |
| 2 | -u" ng | among, bung, clung, flung, hung, lung, pung, rung, slung, sprung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, Tung, unsung, wrung, young. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-n-u" | |
-1 letter: dug, dun, gnu, gun. | |
-2 letters: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-n-u" | |
+1 letter: dungs, dungy, nudge. | |
+2 letters: auding, augend, bunged, dengue, dingus, duding, dugong, duking, dunged, duping, during, gerund, ground, guidon, gulden, gundog, gunned, lunged, nudged, nudger, nudges, sundog, unaged, ungird. | |
+3 letters: agendum, aground, audings, augends, blunged, budding, budging, bungled, curding, daubing, dauting, dengues, deucing, dousing, dubbing, ducking, ducting, dudgeon, dueling, dugongs, dulling, dumbing, dumping, dungeon, dungier, dunging, dunking, dunnage, dunning, dunting, dupping, durning, dusking, dusting, educing, eluding, enduing, exuding, feuding, fudging, funding, fungoid, gerunds, goldurn, grounds, grunted, gudgeon, guerdon, guiding, guidons, guldens, gundogs, gurnard, handgun, hindgut, induing, indulge, judging, jungled, languid, lauding, lounged, mudding, nondrug, nudgers, nudging, pinguid, plunged, pudding, pungled, snugged, sudsing, sueding, sundogs, tongued, trudgen, uncaged, undergo, undoing, undying, ungirds, unglued, ungodly, unguard, unpaged, unurged. | |
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