fly-dungn.
/ˈflʌɪdʌŋ/, U.S. /ˈflaɪˌdəŋ/ The excrement of the fly, usually of the house-fly.
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1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Fly-dirt, flydung.
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fly-dungv.
/ˈflʌɪdʌŋ/, U.S. /ˈflaɪˌdəŋ/ Dyeing.
transitive. In the process of dyeing with madder: To subject for the first time to the process of ‘dunging’: see dung v. Also in combinations as fly-dung bath, fly-dung cistern.The name is said to be due to the fact that the object of the first dunging is to get rid of the ‘flies’ or irregularities in the dyeing.
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1860 Higgin in R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) I. 531 The fly-dung cistern.
1883 Bleaching, Dyeing & Calico-Print. iii. 73 The fly-dung bath.
Derivatives
ˈfly-dunging n.
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1860 Higgin in R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) I. 531 The first [dunging process] is called fly-dunging.
1876 Paton in Encycl. Brit. IV. 687/2 Immediately after the fly-dunging the goods are washed and submitted to a second dunging.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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