DUNG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dung mean? 

• DUNG (noun)
  The noun DUNG has 1 sense:

1. fecal matter of animals

  Familiarity information: DUNG used as a noun is very rare.

• DUNG (verb)
  The verb DUNG has 2 senses:

1. fertilize or dress with dung

2. defecate; used of animals

  Familiarity information: DUNG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUNG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fecal matter of animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

droppings; dung; muck

Hypernyms ("dung" is a kind of...):

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dung"):

buffalo chip; chip; cow chip; cow dung (a piece of dried bovine dung)

coprolite (fossil excrement; petrified dung)

pigeon droppings (droppings of pigeons)

cow pie; cowpie (fecal matter of a cow)

Derivation:

dung (defecate; used of animals)

dung (fertilize or dress with dung)

• DUNG (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fertilize or dress with dung

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

you must dung the land

Hypernyms (to "dung" is one way to...):

feed; fertilise; fertilize (provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dung (fecal matter of animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Defecate; used of animals

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "dung" is one way to...):

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

dung (fecal matter of animals)

 Context examples 

There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by attempting to leap over it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Researchers found the seeds in the dung of some species while others like the Sambar deer regurgitated the large seeds.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The biogas units at Chikkaballapur consist of underground composters filled with cattle dung to generate gas, which is then piped to kitchen stoves installed in village households.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)

Phosphine is among the stinkiest, most toxic gases on Earth, found in some of the foulest of places, including penguin dung heaps, the depths of swamps and bogs, and even in the bowels of some badgers and fish.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo’s evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo’s throat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)