Dunged vs Dunked - What's the difference?
dunged | dunked |
(dung)
(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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(dunk)
To submerge briefly in a liquid.
To set down carelessly.
(ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.
As verbs the difference between dunged and dunked
is that dunged is (dung) while dunked is (dunk).dunged
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(head)Anagrams
*dung
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(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
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(head)Etymology 3
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(en verb)dunked
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(head)dunk
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(en verb)- I like to dunk my donut in my coffee.
- Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.
- The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.
Noun
(en noun)- The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.