dung
noun/dʌŋ/
/dʌŋ/
[uncountable]- solid waste from animals, especially from large ones synonym manure
- cow dung
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDung is used after these nouns:- cow
- elephant
- horse
- …
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to German Dung, Swedish dynga, Icelandic dyngja ‘dung, dunghill, heap’, and Danish dynge ‘heap’.Definitions on the go
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