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Dunged vs Dinged - What's the difference?

dunged | dinged |

As verbs the difference between dunged and dinged

is that dunged is (dung) while dinged is (ding).

dunged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dung)

    • Anagrams

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    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

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • Etymology 3

    unknown

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
    • English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----

    dinged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ding)

    • ding

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dingen, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
  • (colloquial) A rejection.
    • I just got my first ding letter.

    Verb

  • To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
    • The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
  • To hit or strike.
  • To dash; to throw violently.
  • * Milton
    • to ding the book a coit's distance from him
  • To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
    • If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. — BBC surfing Wales [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml]
  • (colloquial) To fire or reject.
    • His top school dinged him last week.
  • (colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
    • My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
  • (golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
    • Derived terms
    * ding up

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias Compare ,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched sound of a bell, especially with wearisome continuance.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
  • To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
  • * 1884 , Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists :
    • If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging' it, ' dinging it into one so.
  • (intransitive, colloquial, gaming) To level up
    • See also
    * ding dong

    Etymology 3

    Romanized from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid; also called ting.
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