dung
IPA: dˈʌŋ
noun
- (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
- (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
- A female given name from Vietnamese
- A male given name from Vietnamese
verb
- (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
- (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
- (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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Examples of "dung" in Sentences
- Well, try working with us and not rubbing our noses in dung for a change!
- The cloth would then be cleared — soaked in dung or a similar substance — and then washed and dried.
- Hinduism reveres the cow, and its dung is used in the countryside as both a disinfectant and as fuel.
- Jason had too, at first, but they lost their novelty when you were shovelling several times your own weight in dung a day.
- A mixture of coal dust and organic material, primarily cattle dung is formed into patties and then slapped against the wall to dry.
- BTW, "dung" is in the King James Bible (aka God's Word according to some literalists), whereupon we find this coprophiliac passage in Isaiah 36: 12:
- Merryn Dineley, a historian from Manchester University and chief brewer of the ancient liquor, insists that the dung is an essential component of the original flavour.
- In the 1860s, there was widespread concern that, by the turn of the century, there would be an insufficient number of people to go round picking up all the horse dung from the carriages.
- Palm oil and sugar cane are the dominant crops in the region, but everything from coconuts to castor oil to cow dung is being tested for fossil-fuel alternatives such as ethanol and biodiesel.
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