dung
nomverbeverbeverbeinterjectionattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈdʌŋ//
- //dʊŋ//
- //dʊŋɡ//
Manure; animal excrement.
nom
- 1
Manure; animal excrement.
Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool[…]
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.
The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!
- 2
A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
- 3
obsolèteA tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.
Étymologie
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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).
verbe
- 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 remove the superfluous mordant.
- 3
To release dung: to defecate.
[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
verbe
- 1
Aussi une forme de dingobsolètepast participle of ding
Étymologie
See ding
verbe
- 1
To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
Étymologie
unknown
interjection
- 1
Variante de dongAlternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).
Étymologie
Onomatopoeic.
Formes
- pluriel
- dungs
- passé
- dunged
- participe passé
- dunged
- participe présent
- dunging
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- dungs