Damn vs Dung - What's the difference?
damn | dung |
(theology, transitive, intransitive) To condemn to hell.
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
* Shakespeare
To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively.
To condemn as unfit, harmful, of poor quality, unsuccessful, invalid, immoral or illegal.
* Alexander Pope
(profane) To curse; put a curse upon.
(archaic) To invoke damnation; to curse.
* Goldsmith:
(profane) Fucking; bloody.
(profane) Very, extremely.
The use of "damn" as a curse.
(profane) A small, negligible quantity, being of little value.
(profane) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
* 1605 , , act III, scene iv, line 129
* 1611 , Authorized King James Version , Malachi 2:3
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 496
(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
To fertilize with dung.
(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.
(obsolete)
(colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
English intransitive verbs
English transitive verbs
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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)- The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
- Only God can ''damn.'' — ''I '''damn you eternally, fiend!
- He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
- I’m afraid that if I speak out on this, I’ll be damned as a troublemaker.
- You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] without hearing.
- That man stole my wallet. Damn him!
- while I inwardly damn .
Adjective
(-)- Shut the damn door!
Synonyms
* see alsoAdverb
(-)- That car was going damn fast!
Derived terms
* dayum * darn * dizamnSynonyms
* see also '''Noun
(en noun)- said a few damns and left
- The new hires aren't worth a damn .
- I don’t give a damn .
dung
English
(wikipedia dung)Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl).Noun
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
* dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungyVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)