Dung vs Gunk - What's the difference?
dung | gunk |
(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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(uncountable, informal) dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance
(uncountable) A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock.
(countable) A member of the gunk subculture.
As verbs the difference between dung and gunk
is that dung is to use, employ while gunk is to soil or make dirty.As a noun gunk is
(uncountable|informal) dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance.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)
Etymology 2
SeeVerb
(head)Etymology 3
unknownVerb
(en verb)gunk
English
Noun
- I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown.