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单词 dung
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dung1 /dung/

noun
  1. Excrement
  2. Manure
  3. A tailor or other worker submitting to low rates of pay, opp to flint (obs sl)
transitive verb

To manure with dung

intransitive verb

To void excrement

ORIGIN: OE dung; cf Dan dynge a heap; Ger Dung

dungˈy adjective

dungˈ-beeˈtle noun

  1. The dor-beetle
  2. A scarabaeid beetle generally

dungˈ-cart noun

dungˈ-fly noun

Any of a number of small two-winged flies (family Scatophagidae) that breed on dung or decaying vegetable matter

dungˈ-fork noun

A fork used for moving stable manure

dungˈheap or dungˈhill noun

  1. A heap of dung
  2. Any squalid situation or place

dungˈ-huntˈer noun

A skua

dungˈmere noun

A manure-pit

ding1 /ding/

intransitive verb
  1. To ring
  2. To sound
  3. To keep sounding
transitive verb

To reiterate to a wearisome degree

ORIGIN: Imit, but partly confused with ding2

dingˈ-a-ling noun

  1. The sound of a bell ringing
  2. A stupid or eccentric person (informal)

dingˈ-dongˈ noun

  1. The sound of bells ringing
  2. Monotony
  3. Sameness
  4. An argument or fight (informal)

adjective and adverb

  1. Like a bell ringing
  2. Hammer-and-tongs
  3. Keenly contested with rapid alternations of success

transitive verb and intransitive verb

  1. To ring
  2. To nag

ding2 /ding/

transitive verb (pat dinged, dang or dung; pap dinged or dung) (all senses archaic or dialect)
  1. To dash
  2. To beat
  3. To thump
  4. To knock
  5. To surpass (Scot)
intransitive verb
  1. To beat (Scot)
  2. To dash (obsolete)
ORIGIN: ME dingen, dyngen; cf ON dengja, Swed dänga to bang

dingˈer noun (slang)

  1. Anything superlative of its kind
  2. A home run (baseball)

ding doun /doon/ (Scot)

To knock or throw down

flint /flint/

noun
  1. A hard mineral, a variety of quartz, which sparks easily when struck with steel
  2. A concretion of silica
  3. A piece of flint, esp one from which sparks are struck, or one manufactured into an implement before (or after) the use of metals
  4. A small piece of an iron alloy, used to produce a spark in cigarette lighters
  5. Anything proverbially hard
  6. A tailor or other worker demanding full union rates of pay, opp to dung (obs sl)
adjective
  1. Made of flint
  2. Hard
ORIGIN: OE flint; Dan flint; Gr plinthos a brick

flintˈify transitive verb

To turn to flint

flintˈily adverb

flintˈiness noun

flintˈy adjective

  1. Consisting of, containing a lot of, or like flint
  2. Hard
  3. Cruel
  4. Obdurate

flint corn noun

A variety of maize with particularly hard grains

flint glass noun

A very fine and pure lead glass, orig made of calcined flints

flintˈ-heart or flint-heartˈed adjective (Shakespeare)

Having a hard heart

flintˈ-knapper noun

A person who flakes or chips flints

flintˈ-knapping noun

flintˈlock noun

A gunlock or gun with a flint from which a spark is struck to ignite the powder

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