Dungとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʌŋ/
• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA: /dʊŋ/
• (Northern England, Midlands, without the NG-coalescence) IPA: /dʊŋɡ/
• 韻: -ʌŋ

語源 1

From 中期英語 dung, dunge, donge, from 古期英語 dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native 中期英語 fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).

名詞

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 129:

     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 […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 2:3:

     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.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496:

     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.

   • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59:

     The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!

2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
3. (countable, UK, slang, obsolete) A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.

   Coordinate term: flint

派生語

動詞

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground

   • 1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections:

     She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.

2. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
   • 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎, The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:

     […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

同意語

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate

語源 2

See ding

動詞

dung

1. (obsolete) past participle of ding

語源 3

unknown

動詞

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

語源 4

Onomatopoeic.

間投詞

dung

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

参考

• dung tag

アナグラム

• UNDG

語源 1

From Proto-West Germanic *dung (“cellar”).

別の表記

• dinġ — dative and genitive singular; nominative and accusative plural

名詞

dung f (nominative plural dynġ) (hapax legomenon)

1. dungeon, prison

語形変化

Strong consonant stem:

同意語

• dimhūs

派生した語

• Middle English: donge, dung, dunge
• → Anglo-Norman: donjun (semantic loan)

語源 2

From Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

別の表記

• ding

名詞

dung f

1. dung, manure

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: donge, dong, donke, doung, dounge, dung, dunge
  • English: dung
  • Scots: dung

名詞

dung

1. alternative form of donge (“dung”)

語源 2

名詞

dung

1. alternative form of donge (“Hell”)