dung

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Manure; animal excrement. uncountable
    — 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[…]
  2. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. countable
  3. A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day. UK,countable,obsolete,slang
动词 v.
  1. To fertilize with dung. transitive
    — a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
  2. past participle of ding form-of,obsolete,participle,past
  3. To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. colloquial
  4. To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. transitive
  5. To release dung: to defecate. intransitive
    — […] 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, […]
感叹词 intj.
  1. Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”). alt-of,alternative

词形变化

dungs plural dungs present,singular,third-person dunging participle,present dunged participle,past dunged past dungs present,singular,third-person dunging participle,present dunged participle,past dunged past

词源

词源 1
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 Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).
词源 2
See ding
词源 3
unknown
词源 4
Onomatopoeic.
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