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BNC: 14683 COCA: 14486

dung

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dung /ˈdʌŋ/ noun
dung
/ˈdʌŋ/
noun
Learner's definition of DUNG
[noncount]
: solid waste from an animal(动物的)粪便
BNC: 14683 COCA: 14486

dung

1 of 2

noun

1
: the feces of an animal : manure
2
: something repulsive
dungy adjective

dung

2 of 2

verb

dunged; dunging; dungs

transitive verb

: to fertilize or dress with manure

Example Sentences

Noun researchers tracked the wild gorillas by following the piles of dung
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The use of pads is a public health win in a nation where women have historically used cloth scraps, mud, and even cow dung to absorb menstrual blood. Natasha D'souza, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2022 More than 800 miles from Los Angeles — on ranchland littered with so much cow dung it’s hard not to step in it — the pastel-green hills are studded with wind giants. Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022 Cow dung fires, a common practice in various regions in India, may have acted as a vehicle for India’s mucormycosis epidemic of 2021, a new study now suggests. Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2022 Manufacturers also would not be allowed to use dung or woodchips to cultivate the mushrooms or make synthetic psilocybin. oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2022 Though they have been labeled plants, fungi and even animals in the past, the protists coat wet and frequently decaying surfaces such as dead trees, leaf litter and even dung, often as single cells. Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022 In the past, most pollution deaths stemmed from indoor and household air pollution, caused by fine particles of soot released from indoor stoves burning wood or dung. Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 17 May 2022 For the baboon studies, Dr. Wasser used hormones from animal dung to help understand their reproductive successes or failures. Dean Paton, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022 Most of the waste material generated in the village is biodegradable, and the community recycles it by making manure or using livestock dung as fuel. Nell Lewis, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
Verb
Moreover, in 2020, communication from the federal government about the pandemic really dung the public wrong. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 July 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Norse dyngja manure pile

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of dung was before the 12th century
BNC: 14683 COCA: 14486

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