dunged

English

Adjective

dunged (comparative more dunged, superlative most dunged)

1. Fertilized with dung.
   • 1777, M. Roussel, “Letter to M. Dahamel”, in The Complete Farmer, page 10:

     I perceived no sensible difference between the dunged and the undunged beds.

   • 1903, Bernard Dyer, “Fertilisers for Market Garden Crops”, in Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, volume 9, page 478:

     There has never been any substantial advantage shown by the heavily dunged plot over the lightly dunged plot. During the first three seasons the size and weight of the asparagus grown was about the same on both the dunged plots.

   • 2010, Aaron Brachfeld, Mary Choate, Horse Hoeing Husbandry, Fifth Edition, page 163:

     Wider aisles are better; in experiments, dung without hoeing did not equal hoeing without dung, and among 12 differences of wider and narrower aisles and beds (each wider trial being proportionally more dunged) and a control trial of broadcasting, wider did better and that which was broadcasted did worst of all: broadcasted yielded only 20% of that which was widest and most hoed

Derived terms

• overdunged
• undunged

 

Verb

dunged

1. simple past and past participle of dung

Anagrams

• dudgen, nudged