Definitions for dung

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Spelling: [duhng]
IPA: /dʌŋ/

Dung is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in dung (dgnu).

Definitions for dung

noun

  1. excrement, especially of animals; manure.

verb (used with object)

  1. to manure (ground) with or as if with dung.

Origin of dung

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Low German, German dung; compare Icelandic dyngja heap, dung, Swedish dynga dung, muck, Old High German tunga manuring

Examples for dung

This plant is found on rich lawns recently manured, but principally on dung.

Found on dung and in richly manured pastures, from July to frost.

It is found on dung, as its name indicates, from June to September.

I must fill the bin of the oxen with hay, and water them, and carry out the dung.

dung is to Ofili what beds are to Tracey Emin or formaldehyde is to Damien Hirst.

Rhino tend to stick close to their “middens”—dung piles—and this predictably makes them even more vulnerable.

Every morning their dung is carried away, and they are well curried and combed.

IN a city in the neighborhood of Kaiutschou there once lived a constable by the name of dung.

Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.

dung was agreeable and asked: “But what really brings you here?”

Word Value for dung
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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