Definizione monolingua

dung

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
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 void excrement.

dung (countable and uncountable; plural dungs)

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene iv, line 129

     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 […]

   • 1611, Authorized King James Version, Malachi 2:3

     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.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496

     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.

2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Definizione dizionario dung

	sterco
	manure

	escremento
	manure

	feci
	manure

concime

deiezioni animali

fertilizzante

letame

spazzatura

stallatico

Altri significati:

(transitive) To fertilize with dung.

(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

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

(transitive, Calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.

to fertilize with dung

(obsolete) Past participle of ding

(intransitive) To void excrement.

(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.