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Damn vs Dung - What's the difference?

damn | dung |

As verbs the difference between damn and dung

is that damn is (theology|transitive|intransitive) to condemn to hell while dung is to use, employ.

As an adjective damn

is (profane) fucking; bloody.

As an adverb damn

is (profane) very, extremely.

As an interjection damn

is (profane).

As a noun damn

is the use of "damn" as a curse.

damn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
  • The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
    Only God can ''damn.'' — ''I '''damn you eternally, fiend!
  • To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
  • To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
  • I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
  • To condemn as unfit, harmful, of poor quality, unsuccessful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] without hearing.
  • (profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
  • That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
  • (archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
  • * Goldsmith:
  • while I inwardly damn .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (profane) Fucking; bloody.
  • Shut the damn door!

    Synonyms

    * see also

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (profane) Very, extremely.
  • That car was going damn fast!

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (profane)
  • Derived terms

    * dayum * darn * dizamn

    Synonyms

    * see also '''

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The use of "damn" as a curse.
  • said a few damns and left
  • (profane) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value.
  • The new hires aren't worth a damn .
  • (profane) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
  • I don’t give a damn .

    dung

    English

    (wikipedia dung)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
  • * 1605 , , 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 , Authorized King James Version , 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.
  • (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
  • Derived terms
    * dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fertilize with dung.
  • (Dryden)
  • (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • To void excrement.
  • Etymology 2

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)
  • Etymology 3

    unknown

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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