dungy
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English
Etymology
From Middle English dongy, donky, dungy, equivalent to dung + -y. Probably a doublet of dingy.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dungy (comparative dungier, superlative dungiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of dung.
- 1813, Charles Marshall, A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening: With Hints on Fish-ponds, page 354:
- […] they may not be drawn up long legged; and by no means to let them have a dungy soil to grow in, or a very rich one […]
- Covered in dung
- 1999, J. F. Gracey, David S. Collins, Robert J. Huey, Meat Hygiene, page 167:
- If, however, excessively dungy animals are offered for transportation, the owner of the animals is requested to clean them.