EGAVE

dung

About 1.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Manure; animal excrement.
  2. noun A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
  3. noun A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.
  4. verb To fertilize with dung.
  5. verb To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  6. verb To release dung: to defecate.
  7. verb past participle of ding
  8. verb To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Similar words

muck droppings manure crap fertiliser excrement excreta scat poo turd

Often followed by

and of is in beetles for to heap beetle

Word family

dunged dungier dungiest dunging dungs dungy

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