Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of dung; foul: vile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of dung; filthy; vile; low.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having the texture of dung.
  • adjective Covered in dung
  • adjective Having an odor of dung

Etymologies

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dung +‎ -y

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Examples

  • In its wake the stink of masticated sulfur and burning brimstone corrupted the air, and bootprints fused the sand where they had trod into dungy glass.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • The creatures spread their dungy wings and heaved upward.

    Xone of Contention Anthony, Piers 1999

  • The creatures spread their dungy wings and heaved upward.

    Xone of Contention Anthony, Piers 1999

  • The air was soft and a little wet, and she enjoyed feeling the cool, damp, dungy earth in her hands.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • The air was soft and a little wet, and she enjoyed feeling the cool, damp, dungy earth in her hands.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • The air was soft and a little wet, and she enjoyed feeling the cool, damp, dungy earth in her hands.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • It seemed to me that when he had soared up towards the ever vanishing Ideal, he reached a point whereat he turned in disgust and hurled himself madly back to the dungiest part of this dungy earth.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • It's about time Frazier gets a head coaching job, he's been interviewing since he was an assistant under tony dungy with the colts.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • It's about time Frazier gets a head coaching job, he's been interviewing since he was an assistant under tony dungy with the colts.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • WOW tony dungy is out of line with this one, he does not cut any checks for rex ryan.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

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