Standard Lemma guide

dung

intj · name · noun · verb · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈdʌŋ/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Midlands, Northern-England: /dʊŋ/
  • Midlands, Northern-England: /dʊŋɡ/ without the NG-coalescence
  • rhymes with -ʌŋ
  • CMU ARPABET: D AH1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A female given name from Vietnamese.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A male given name from Vietnamese.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Manure; animal excrement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To fertilize with dung.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Qualifier: calico printing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To release dung: to defecate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

past participle of ding

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, obsolete, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

fecal matter of animals

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: droppings, muck

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection

Narrower terms: chip, cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip, coprolite, pigeon droppings, cow pie, cowpie

13

verb

Meaning 13

defecate; used of animals

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make

14

verb

Meaning 14

fertilize or dress with dung

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • you must dung the land

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fertilize, fertilise, feed

History

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dung.

Borrowed from Vietnamese Dũng.

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”).

See ding

unknown

Across languages

Translations

196 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: pleh — manure
  • Albanian: bajgë — manure
  • Arabic: رَوْث (rawṯ) — manure
  • Armenian: գոմաղբ (gomaġb) — manure
  • Aromanian: baligă — manure
  • Assamese: গোবৰ (gübor) — manure
  • Assamese: গু (gu) — manure
  • Azerbaijani: peyin — manure
  • Azerbaijani: gübrə — manure
  • Belarusian: гной (hnoj) — manure
  • Belarusian: кал (kal) — manure
  • Central Bikol: udo — manure
  • Bulgarian: оборски тор (oborski tor) — manure
  • Bulgarian: тор (tor) — manure
  • Burmese: ချေး (hkye:) — manure
  • Burmese: မြေဩဇာ (mreau:ja) — manure
  • Catalan: adob — manure
  • Catalan: fem — manure
  • Catalan: femta — manure
  • Chamicuro: tuki — manure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 肥 (féi) — manure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 肥料 (féiliào) — manure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糞肥 /粪肥 (fènféi) — manure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糞 /粪 (fèn) — manure
  • Chinese Mandarin: 屎 — manure
  • Czech: hnůj — manure
  • Czech: mrva — manure
  • Czech: trus — manure
  • Danish: gødning — manure
  • Danish: møg — manure
  • Dutch: mest — manure
  • Esperanto: sterko — manure
  • Estonian: sõnnik — manure
  • Finnish: lanta — manure
  • Finnish: sonta — manure
  • French: bouse — manure
  • French: fumier — manure
  • French: purin — manure
  • West-Frisian: dong — manure
  • Galician: esterco — manure
  • Galician: bosta — manure
  • Galician: cuito — manure
  • Galician: estrume — manure
  • Galician: gasto — manure
  • Galician: iboño — manure
  • Gallo: fien — manure
  • Georgian: ნეხვი (nexvi) — manure
  • Georgian: სკორე (sḳore) — manure
  • German: Dünger — manure
  • German: Mist — manure
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰 (smarna) — manure
  • Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (maihstus) — manure
  • Greek: κόπρος (kópros) — manure
  • Ancient Greek: κόπρος (kópros) — manure
  • Ancient Greek: ὄνθος (ónthos) — manure
  • Ancient Greek: σπέλεθος (spélethos) — manure
  • Gujarati: પોદળો (podaḷo) — manure
  • Gujarati: છાણ (chāṇ) — manure
  • Haitian Creole: fimye — manure
  • Hawaiian: kūkae — manure
  • Hebrew: זֶבֶל (zével) — manure
  • Higaonon: ta-i — manure
  • Hindi: गोबर (gobar) — manure
  • Hindi: मल (mal) — manure
  • Hindi: लीद (līd) — manure
  • Hindi: विष्ठा (viṣṭhā) — manure
  • Hindi: गू (gū) — manure
  • Hindi: गूह (gūh) — manure
  • Hindi: गुह (guh) — manure
  • Hindi: खाद (khād) — manure
  • Hindi: उपला (uplā) — manure
  • Hungarian: trágya — manure
  • Icelandic: mykja — manure
  • Irish: aoileach — manure
  • Italian: escremento — manure
  • Italian: feci — manure
  • Italian: sterco — manure
  • Italian: letame — manure
  • Italian: fimo — manure
  • Italian: ordura — manure
  • Japanese: 肥 (koe) — manure
  • Japanese: 肥料 (hiryō) — manure
  • Kazakh: көң (köñ) — manure
  • Khmer: ជីអាចម៍សត្វ (cii ʔac sat) — manure
  • Korean: 똥 (ttong) — manure
  • Korean: 똥거름 (ttonggeoreum) — manure
  • Korean: 비료 (biryo) — manure
  • Central Kurdish: ڕیخ (rîx) — manure
  • Central Kurdish: تەرس (ters) — manure
  • Central Kurdish: پشکڵ (pişkill) — manure
  • Northern Kurdish: rîx — manure
  • Kyrgyz: көң (köŋ) — manure
  • Kyrgyz: кык (kık) — manure
  • Kyrgyz: тезек (tezek) — manure
  • Lao: ຂີ້ (khī) — manure
  • Lao: ມູນ (mūn) — manure
  • Latin: stercus — manure
  • Latin: fimum — manure
  • Latvian: mēsli — manure
  • Lithuanian: mėšlas — manure
  • : ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii2) — manure
  • Macedonian: измет (izmet) — manure
  • Malayalam: ചാണകം (cāṇakaṁ) — manure
  • Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠨ (fajan) — manure
  • Manx: eoylley — manure
  • Māori: hamuti — manure
  • Māori: hamiti — manure
  • Māori: roke — manure
  • Māori: tūtae — manure
  • Māori: tiko — manure
  • Middle English: donge — manure
  • Mongolian: аргал (argal) — manure
  • Mongolian: баас (baas) — manure
  • Navajo: chąąʼ — manure
  • Norwegian Bokmål: møkk — manure
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gjødsel — manure
  • Ojibwe: moo — manure
  • Old Church Slavonic: мотꙑла (motyla) — manure
  • Old Uyghur: 𐽹𐽰𐽶𐽰𐽵𐾄 (mayak) — manure
  • Iranian Persian: کود (kud) — manure
  • Iranian Persian: سَرْگین (sargin) — manure
  • Iranian Persian: سِرْگین (sergin) — manure
  • Pitjantjatjara: kuna — manure
  • Plautdietsch: Mest — manure
  • Polish: gnój — manure
  • Polish: nawóz — manure
  • Polish: kał — manure
  • Portuguese: estrume — manure
  • Portuguese: esterco — manure
  • Romanian: bălegar — manure
  • Romanian: balegă — manure
  • Romanian: gunoi — manure
  • Russian: наво́з (navóz) — manure
  • Russian: кал (kal) — manure
  • Russian: помёт (pomjót) — manure
  • Russian: экскреме́нты (ekskreménty) — manure
  • Scottish Gaelic: buachar — manure
  • Scottish Gaelic: todhar — manure
  • Serbo-Croatian: бале́га — manure
  • Serbo-Croatian: гно̑ј — manure
  • Serbo-Croatian: гно̏јӣво — manure
  • Serbo-Croatian: baléga — manure
  • Serbo-Croatian: gnȏj — manure
  • Serbo-Croatian: gnȍjīvo — manure
  • Sicilian: fumèri — manure
  • Sidamo: obba — manure
  • Slovak: hnoj — manure
  • Slovene: gnoj — manure
  • Somali: xaar-walwaal — manure
  • Spanish: excremento — manure
  • Spanish: estiércol — manure
  • Swedish: dynga — manure
  • Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠙꠞ (gufor) — manure
  • Tajik: пору (poru) — manure
  • Tajik: саргин (sargin) — manure
  • Telugu: ముటము (muṭamu) — manure
  • Thai: มูล (muun) — manure
  • Thai: ขี้ (kîi) — manure
  • Tibetan: ལྕི་བ (lci ba) — manure
  • Tibetan: ལུད (lud) — manure
  • Tocharian B: weṃts — manure
  • Tocharian B: kekärtkor — manure
  • Tongan: ta'e — manure
  • Turkish: dışkı — manure
  • Turkish: tezek — manure
  • Turkish: gübre — manure
  • Ottoman Turkish: فشقی (fışkı) — manure
  • Ottoman Turkish: تزك (tezek) — manure
  • Turkmen: tezek — manure
  • Turkmen: gyýk — manure
  • Turkmen: dökün — manure
  • Ukrainian: гній (hnij) — manure
  • Ukrainian: кал (kal) — manure
  • Ukrainian: екскреме́нти (ekskreménty) — manure
  • Urdu: کھاد (khād) — manure
  • Uzbek: goʻng — manure
  • Uzbek: oʻgʻit — manure
  • Vietnamese: phân — manure
  • Vietnamese: phân chuồng — manure
  • Walloon: ansene — manure
  • Welsh: tail — manure
  • Woiwurrung: koonong — manure
  • Zhuang: haex — manure
  • Bulgarian: торя (torja) — to fertilize with dung
  • Finnish: lannoittaa — to fertilize with dung
  • Galician: estercar — to fertilize with dung
  • German: düngen — to fertilize with dung
  • Greek: κοπρίζω (koprízo) — to fertilize with dung
  • Greek: λιπαίνω (lipaíno) — to fertilize with dung
  • Italian: concimare — to fertilize with dung
  • Russian: удобрять (udobrjatʹ) — to fertilize with dung
  • Russian: унавоживать (unavoživatʹ) — to fertilize with dung
  • Russian: унаво́зить (unavózitʹ) — to fertilize with dung
  • Ottoman Turkish: فشقیلامق (fışkılamak) — to fertilize with dung
  • Ukrainian: угно́ювати (uhnójuvaty) — to fertilize with dung
  • Ukrainian: угної́ти (uhnojíty) — to fertilize with dung