Dung

Definitions

1. A female given name from Vietnamese.
2. A male given name from Vietnamese.
3. Manure; animal excrement.
   uncountable
4. A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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[…]”

“Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread⟳ dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take⟳ you away with it.”

“The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.”

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