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单词 dungish
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dungishadj.

Brit. /ˈdʌŋɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈdəŋɪʃ/
Forms: see dung n.1 and -ish suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dung n.1, -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < dung n.1 + -ish suffix1.
1. Base, worthless; contemptible, despicable, vile. Only in occasional use after 17th cent. In quot. 2004 in a discussion of seventeenth-century religious poetry, although the work directly referred to does not use this word.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]
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sowlyc1400
soryc1440
uncleanly1447
mossyc1450
dungyc1494
bedirted1528
slubberly?1529
filthish1530
deturpate?1533
mucky1538
stercorous1542
bluterc1550
dungish?1550
puddly1559
drumly1563
suddle1568
parbruilyiedc1586
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?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. lxxxix Thys dyvinite of yours is but dongyshe [printed dougyshe] daubry.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 46 Dongysh and fylthie tradicions.
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 126 No lesse dungish and brutish.
1672 J. Bunyan Def. Doctr. Justif. (1673) 39 Such Dungish Principles as yours.
2004 J. Gatta Making Nature Sacred ii. 39 ‘Acts of God’ like the sweeping flood are aptly viewed as..fit judgments on humanity's dungish ways.
2. Of or resembling dung; characteristic of or suggestive of dung. Somewhat rare.
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a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 184 The undermost barley of the swarths, which lay next the earth, was generally sogged every day, and dungish till turned.
1925 New Coterie No. 1. 51 There is a reek of raw flesh and dungish perspiration.
1962 Arion Spring 93 He has an enormous paunch, and if he has any basic color, it is a pervasive dungish tan.
2011 C. Fleming Between Cloud & Horizon (2013) (Electronic ed.) It takes something to out-pungent the perpetual dung-ish smell of this fine and fertile land.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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