dung

Other forms of dung

plural

dungs·

past tense

dunged·

present participle

dunging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dung

What does dung mean?

dung means "fertilize or dress with dung". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dung?

dung has 1 syllable: dung. In IPA it is /ˈdʌŋ/.

What is another word for dung?

Close synonyms include droppings, muck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dung a common word?

dung is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.