dung
57
2.8
- noun
- /dʌŋ/
:
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- Farmers often use animal dung as a natural fertilizer to enrich the soil.
- cow dung
- dung beetle
- dung fly
They cook over a wood fire with wood or dung, animal dung.
- They cook over a wood fire with wood or dung, animal dung.
- Now imagine that it's full of crap, literally full of dung or poop.
- And when the cows poop, right, it's called a cow pie or a cow dung.
- But we'll have the, the the smell of like cow dung wafting in, you know, the right cow dung in one nostril and like Polish sausage in another nostril.
- Why would you put crocodile dung up your clunge?
- Give me that dung dung thing and Dharma and Greg.
Examples
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The vast majority of poor rural households depend on biomass energy, including wood, dung, and agricultural residue.
Academic text (2006) -
On the vast plains of the Midwest, firewood was in short supply, but big, dried up piles of Buffalo dung were not.
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This is mostly developing countries using bad fuels like wood, dung, cardboard inside their homes to cook and keep warm.
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It feeds on flies that collect at dung on the forest floor.
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Air pollution may stem from the burning of coal and dung, as well as from motor vehicle emissions.
Academic text (1998) -
Unfortunately, project analysts overestimated the supply of dung fuel because they used national rather than locally gathered figures.
Academic text (1998) -
Each time the wolves marked the spot with urine and dung, leaving a smelly mess for the hunter.
Fiction book (1994) -
The analysis of the thousands of samples of the captive cows' dung, collected throughout the study, is still underway.
Academic text (2006) -
A large facility capable of processing the dung from 500 cows costs nearly $300,000 (EPA 2000).
Academic text (2002) -
Singing Wolf poked at the smoldering chunk of mammoth dung in the fire pit.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
109
5.1
Solid waste that people or animals pass from their body
66
2.9
Animal or plant waste spread on soil to help plants grow
54
3.7
A wet dirty substance like mud or animal waste
30
5.8
Solid waste that the body leaves when you go to the toilet
26
6.1
Waste that leaves the body, such as poop
8
4.2
Solid waste that leaves the body after it digests food
1
9.9
Solid waste from people or animals, for example poo
1
4.8
Solid waste the body sends out through the anus after food is digested
Small piles or pellets of animal poop
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word dung comes from an old English word meaning 'animal poop' or 'manure'. People have used dung for centuries to help plants grow, so dung now means animal poop often used as fertilizer.