What part of speech is dung?

Dung can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dung is a verb, present, 1st person singular of dung (infinitive).
  • 2. dung is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. dung is a noun, singular of dungs.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does dung mean?

Definitions

Verb

dung - defecate; used of animals
dung - fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land"

Noun

dung - Manure; animal excrement.
dung - A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Examples of dung

#   Sentence  
1. verb You must dung the land.
2. verb "Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it>>
3. noun Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.
4. noun You ask me, child, what love is? A star in a pile of dung.
5. noun The Ostrich is the largest bird, the Wren the smallest; the Owl is the most despicable; the Hoopoe the most dirty (as it eats dung); the Bird of Paradise is most rare.
6. noun Dung beetles are insects.
7. noun "Someone can yell at you, maybe he's not your enemy; someone else can help you, without being a friend; when it's cow dung that covers you, you could at least be more discreet." This is what Muḥend-U-Yeḥya (MoḥYa) said, may he rest in peace, in the story he titled "The Bird".
Sentence  
verb
You must dung the land.
"Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it>>
noun
Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.
You ask me, child, what love is? A star in a pile of dung.
The Ostrich is the largest bird, the Wren the smallest; the Owl is the most despicable; the Hoopoe the most dirty (as it eats dung); the Bird of Paradise is most rare.
Dung beetles are insects.
"Someone can yell at you, maybe he's not your enemy; someone else can help you, without being a friend; when it's cow dung that covers you, you could at least be more discreet." This is what Muḥend-U-Yeḥya (MoḥYa) said, may he rest in peace, in the story he titled "The Bird".

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