dungyadj.

Brit.

/ˈdʌŋi/, U.S.

/ˈdəŋi/

Forms: see dung n.¹ and -y suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 donky.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dung n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < dung n.¹ + -y suffix¹.In sense 3b after Hebrew gillūlīm (plural noun) idols (Deuteronomy 29:17, Leviticus 6:30, etc.), punning alteration (perhaps after šiqquṣ disgust, detestation, which is ultimately related to shiksa n.) of the plural of gēl ball of excrement (compare the related gālāl ‘dung’), of uncertain origin. With senses 3a and 4 compare slightly earlier dungish adj.

1. Of land, earth, etc.: rich in dung or other fertilizing matter; well dunged; fertile, productive. Now rare.In quot. a1616 coloured by sense 3a (cf. quot. a1616 at that sense).

ΚΠ

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xv.19 Ȝif to me ablessynge, þe souþ lond & dryȝe þou hast ȝyue to me, Iune & amoyste dongy lond [altered to awater lond; L. inriguam].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 37 Kingdomes are clay: Our dungie earth alike Feeds Beast as Man.

1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 84 The best dungy compost.

1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner vi. xlviii. 250 The ground is not extraordinary good and dungy.

1779 J. Abercrombie Garden Mushroom 16 Found chiefly in dry rotten dung or clods of dungy earth.

1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 475 Rich pasture fields, old mushroom beds, old cucumber beds, dung-hills or dungy composts.

1855 Naturalist 5 80 It is a very beautiful and graceful little Agaric, not uncommon in rich, dungy pastures.

1919 Eng. Rev. Aug. 370 A worm sleeps sweeter in its dungy loam.

2003 E. Crane Making Bee-line xix. 244 I was given..a bunch of herb seedlings—their roots in a ball of rich dungy soil.

2. Containing or characterized by the presence of dung; spec. covered in or spattered with dung; soiled or polluted with dung or filth; dirty, filthy; mucky, muddy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized

dungedOE

marledc1265

mucked1290

chavedc1420

dungyc1450

manured1551

fatted1552

folded1579

chalked1598

battled1600

seasoned1604

limed1707

sanded1707

fattened1725

sooted1776

wared1795

littery1805

plastered1819

nitred1822

gypsumed1841

nitrated1841

sewaged1861

sewage-irrigated1867

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [adjective] > relating to or having manure

dungyc1450

manuring1635

guaniferous1844

manurial1861

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 122 I can wel russhe a dungy [Fr. boeuse] place.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 160 (MED) I am..foule stinkinge and dungy.

1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres iii, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 58 What stinking Scauenger..but may right easily fill, His dungy tumbrel?

1602 T. Kingsmill Complaint against Securitie sig. D7 Such as are cloathed in gold.., shall..make much of dung, (that is to say) of dungie or euill sauoring garments.

1655 Physical Dict. in N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick x. v. 291 Fluxus stecorosus, or a dungy flux, is another kind, in which much liquid excrement is often voided.

1779 Pictures of Men, Manners & Times II. xxv. 123 More filthy than the sun-dried, dungy matter upon the joles of the Hottentots.

1813 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 396 Some..[wool merchants] are in the habit of setting off their dark and dungy wool, by a mixture of clean and fair wool.

1884 Friends' Rev. 19 Jan. 364/2 The udder is sponged, if necessary, and wiped with a clean towel, and not a dungy rag.

1901 Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 21 May They [sc. hogs] should be dry and not allowed to sleep in a dungy, heating bed.

1972 Agric. Hist. 46 32 Votaries of Clio [i.e. historians] in dungy boots have examined small Northern family farms with their general output.

2005 E. Lewine Death & Sun xiii. 108 Six bulls were..nosing in the muddy and dungy straw that covered the wet concrete floor.

a. figurative. Despicable, contemptible, foul; base, worthless; vile, degrading. rare after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]

uncleaneOE

horyc1000

foulOE

fennilicha1225

sutya1225

mixc1225

blackc1300

solwyc1325

bawdy1377

filthyc1384

nastyc1390

sowlyc1400

soryc1440

uncleanly1447

mossyc1450

dungyc1494

bedirted1528

slubberly?1529

filthish1530

deturpate?1533

mucky1538

stercorous1542

bluterc1550

dungish?1550

puddly1559

drumly1563

suddle1568

parbruilyiedc1586

sluttered1589

dirty1600

ordurous?1606

immund1621

turpie1633

sterquilinious1647

bruckled1648

cloacal1656

foede1657

stercorose1727

murky1755

sterquilinian1772

cloacinean1814

floy1820

poucey1829

stoachy1836

mullocky1839

muckering1841

sewery1851

dutty1853

dauby1855

cloacean1859

mucky1863

bilgy1878

cloacaline1879

muck-heapy1881

cloacinal1887

schmutzig1911

grufty1922

scabrous1939

mawkit1962

feechie1975

c1494 tr. Deidis of Armorie (Harl.) (1994) 36 He þat first bur him [sc. the peacock] in armes vas simple and had a fwmeus hed; and donky [Fr. dyabolique] spech; and feit of foull fassoun.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie To Detraction sig. A3^v My minde disdaines the dungie muddy scum Of abiect thoughts.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 671 There's not a graine of it [sc. honesty], the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth.

1673 E. Pearse Great Concern xi. 220 Why do I take up in such low, poor, dungy, drossy Things, as the best of sin and this world are?

1674 T. Duffett Empress of Morocco 4 He is but a dungy fellow.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Dungy,..mean, vile, base, low, odious, worthless.

1915 Jrnl. Relig. Psychol. 7 444 The real world was felt to be in a low, almost dungy state of alienation.

2000 M. McCourt Singing My Him Song (2001) i. 25 I never thought I would see the day when my friend..would descend to the dungiest depths of sordid commerce.

b. Designating a god or idol regarded as false, detestable, or abominable. Chiefly in biblical contexts. Cf. dunghill adj. 2b. Now rare.See note in etymology.

ΚΠ

1595 F. Bunny Truth & Falshood xxix. f. 128 The Hebrew names..may very wel serue for image or idol... Sometime their names shew and tell what they are, as vanities, lies, abhominations, yea dirtie and dungie.

1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxix. 17 Their idoles [margin] Hebr. donguie gods.

1683 in R. Sandilands Righteous Judgm. ix. 97 Rogers Team, Crisp, Pennyman, Bullock and Bugg, Dark Devil-driven Dungy-gods desprately lug.

1685 E. Pococke Comm. Hosea (iii. 4) 148/1 Scripture useth..to call Idols by such names as import contempt and disgrace, as..Gilulim, dungy things.

c1780 J. Johnson Divine Authority 22 They left them perfect dungy gods; as contemptible as brute beasts.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets Hosea 59 Scripture gives disgraceful names to the idols (as abominations, nothings, dungy things).

1881 G. Massey Bk. of Beginnings II. xvii. 318 The dungy gods, Baal-zebul and Baal-zebub, of Israel.

1971 Watchtower 15 June 364/2 He [sc. Josiah] got rid of the spirit mediums, professional foretellers of events, the teraphim and dungy idols.

4. Characteristic of or suggestive of dung; of, relating to, or arising from dung.

ΚΠ

1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner iii. xxxiii. 180 The more they [sc. asparagus shoots] have of the steam, the more sickly and dungy they will taste.

1789 J. Abercrombie Compl. Kitchen Gardener 28 Earth..the other parts..only two or three inches at present, just to keep down the rancid dungy steam from the plants.

1852 Sartain's Mag. July 34/1 Saving a damp, disagreeable, dungy smell, the place was not quite as uncomfortable as..it might seem.

1882 Rep. Minister Agric. Dominion of Canada 1881 152 The first symptom which attracts attention is the peculiar and ‘dungy’ taste of the milk.

1950 Ellery Queen's Myst. Mag. July 83/1 The skirt had once been turkey red, but wear, work, and weather had turned it a dungy brown.

2015 K. Calvert June Mickle ii. 25 Most of all she missed the dungy smell of horses feeding in the barn on fresh hay from the fields.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dungy
释义	dungyadj. Brit. /ˈdʌŋi/, U.S. /ˈdəŋi/ Forms: see dung n.¹ and -y suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 donky. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dung n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < dung n.¹ + -y suffix¹.In sense 3b after Hebrew gillūlīm (plural noun) idols (Deuteronomy 29:17, Leviticus 6:30, etc.), punning alteration (perhaps after šiqquṣ disgust, detestation, which is ultimately related to shiksa n.) of the plural of gēl ball of excrement (compare the related gālāl ‘dung’), of uncertain origin. With senses 3a and 4 compare slightly earlier dungish adj. 1. Of land, earth, etc.: rich in dung or other fertilizing matter; well dunged; fertile, productive. Now rare.In quot. a1616 coloured by sense 3a (cf. quot. a1616 at that sense). ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xv.19 Ȝif to me ablessynge, þe souþ lond & dryȝe þou hast ȝyue to me, Iune & amoyste dongy lond [altered to awater lond; L. inriguam]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 37 Kingdomes are clay: Our dungie earth alike Feeds Beast as Man. View more context for this quotation 1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 84 The best dungy compost. 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner vi. xlviii. 250 The ground is not extraordinary good and dungy. 1779 J. Abercrombie Garden Mushroom 16 Found chiefly in dry rotten dung or clods of dungy earth. 1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 475 Rich pasture fields, old mushroom beds, old cucumber beds, dung-hills or dungy composts. 1855 Naturalist 5 80 It is a very beautiful and graceful little Agaric, not uncommon in rich, dungy pastures. 1919 Eng. Rev. Aug. 370 A worm sleeps sweeter in its dungy loam. 2003 E. Crane Making Bee-line xix. 244 I was given..a bunch of herb seedlings—their roots in a ball of rich dungy soil. 2. Containing or characterized by the presence of dung; spec. covered in or spattered with dung; soiled or polluted with dung or filth; dirty, filthy; mucky, muddy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized dungedOE marledc1265 mucked1290 chavedc1420 dungyc1450 manured1551 fatted1552 folded1579 chalked1598 battled1600 seasoned1604 limed1707 sanded1707 fattened1725 sooted1776 wared1795 littery1805 plastered1819 nitred1822 gypsumed1841 nitrated1841 sewaged1861 sewage-irrigated1867 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [adjective] > relating to or having manure dungyc1450 manuring1635 guaniferous1844 manurial1861 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 122 I can wel russhe a dungy [Fr. boeuse] place. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 160 (MED) I am..foule stinkinge and dungy. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres iii, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 58 What stinking Scauenger..but may right easily fill, His dungy tumbrel? 1602 T. Kingsmill Complaint against Securitie sig. D7 Such as are cloathed in gold.., shall..make much of dung, (that is to say) of dungie or euill sauoring garments. 1655 Physical Dict. in N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick x. v. 291 Fluxus stecorosus, or a dungy flux, is another kind, in which much liquid excrement is often voided. 1779 Pictures of Men, Manners & Times II. xxv. 123 More filthy than the sun-dried, dungy matter upon the joles of the Hottentots. 1813 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 396 Some..[wool merchants] are in the habit of setting off their dark and dungy wool, by a mixture of clean and fair wool. 1884 Friends' Rev. 19 Jan. 364/2 The udder is sponged, if necessary, and wiped with a clean towel, and not a dungy rag. 1901 Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 21 May They [sc. hogs] should be dry and not allowed to sleep in a dungy, heating bed. 1972 Agric. Hist. 46 32 Votaries of Clio [i.e. historians] in dungy boots have examined small Northern family farms with their general output. 2005 E. Lewine Death & Sun xiii. 108 Six bulls were..nosing in the muddy and dungy straw that covered the wet concrete floor. 3. a. figurative. Despicable, contemptible, foul; base, worthless; vile, degrading. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 c1494 tr. Deidis of Armorie (Harl.) (1994) 36 He þat first bur him [sc. the peacock] in armes vas simple and had a fwmeus hed; and donky [Fr. dyabolique] spech; and feit of foull fassoun. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie To Detraction sig. A3^v My minde disdaines the dungie muddy scum Of abiect thoughts. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 671 There's not a graine of it [sc. honesty], the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth. 1673 E. Pearse Great Concern xi. 220 Why do I take up in such low, poor, dungy, drossy Things, as the best of sin and this world are? 1674 T. Duffett Empress of Morocco 4 He is but a dungy fellow. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Dungy,..mean, vile, base, low, odious, worthless. 1915 Jrnl. Relig. Psychol. 7 444 The real world was felt to be in a low, almost dungy state of alienation. 2000 M. McCourt Singing My Him Song (2001) i. 25 I never thought I would see the day when my friend..would descend to the dungiest depths of sordid commerce. b. Designating a god or idol regarded as false, detestable, or abominable. Chiefly in biblical contexts. Cf. dunghill adj. 2b. Now rare.See note in etymology. ΚΠ 1595 F. Bunny Truth & Falshood xxix. f. 128 The Hebrew names..may very wel serue for image or idol... Sometime their names shew and tell what they are, as vanities, lies, abhominations, yea dirtie and dungie. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxix. 17 Their idoles [margin] Hebr. donguie gods. View more context for this quotation 1683 in R. Sandilands Righteous Judgm. ix. 97 Rogers Team, Crisp, Pennyman, Bullock and Bugg, Dark Devil-driven Dungy-gods desprately lug. 1685 E. Pococke Comm. Hosea (iii. 4) 148/1 Scripture useth..to call Idols by such names as import contempt and disgrace, as..Gilulim, dungy things. c1780 J. Johnson Divine Authority 22 They left them perfect dungy gods; as contemptible as brute beasts. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets Hosea 59 Scripture gives disgraceful names to the idols (as abominations, nothings, dungy things). 1881 G. Massey Bk. of Beginnings II. xvii. 318 The dungy gods, Baal-zebul and Baal-zebub, of Israel. 1971 Watchtower 15 June 364/2 He [sc. Josiah] got rid of the spirit mediums, professional foretellers of events, the teraphim and dungy idols. 4. Characteristic of or suggestive of dung; of, relating to, or arising from dung. ΚΠ 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner iii. xxxiii. 180 The more they [sc. asparagus shoots] have of the steam, the more sickly and dungy they will taste. 1789 J. Abercrombie Compl. Kitchen Gardener 28 Earth..the other parts..only two or three inches at present, just to keep down the rancid dungy steam from the plants. 1852 Sartain's Mag. July 34/1 Saving a damp, disagreeable, dungy smell, the place was not quite as uncomfortable as..it might seem. 1882 Rep. Minister Agric. Dominion of Canada 1881 152 The first symptom which attracts attention is the peculiar and ‘dungy’ taste of the milk. 1950 Ellery Queen's Myst. Mag. July 83/1 The skirt had once been turkey red, but wear, work, and weather had turned it a dungy brown. 2015 K. Calvert June Mickle ii. 25 Most of all she missed the dungy smell of horses feeding in the barn on fresh hay from the fields. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1382
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