dung

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US /ˈdʌŋ/ See IPA manual

Freq #11926

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verb
fertilize or dress with dung

You must dung the land.

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cack poop

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dung beetle
a beetle that feeds on animal dung and may form it into balls

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Etymology

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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).

*dʰengʰ- Proto-Indo-European dung, dunge, donge Middle English dung Old English *dungu Proto-West Germanic *dungō Proto-Germanic

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