dung

Etymology 1

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

noun

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
   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. 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496
2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

verb

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
   She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck. 1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections
2. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.

Etymology 2

See ding

verb

1. (obsolete) past participle of ding

Etymology 3

unknown

verb

1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Etymology 4

Onomatopeia

intj

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