bedung

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verb

To cover with dung or manure.

OriginMiddle English bidungen ← Old English *bedynġan ← Proto-West Germanic *bidungijan →
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Meanings

verbbedung (third-person singular simple present bedungs, present participle bedunging, simple past and past participle bedunged)

present singular third person bedungs · participle present bedunging · participle past bedunged · past bedunged

  1. transitiveTo cover with dung or manure.
  2. figurativelysometimestransitiveTo bedaub or defile.

    […] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.

    1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*bidungijan
  2. Old English*bedynġan
  3. Middle Englishbidungen
  4. Englishbedung

From Middle English bidungen, bydyngen, from Old English *bedynġan, from Proto-West Germanic *bidungijan, equivalent to be- + dung. Cognate with West Frisian bedongje (“to bedung”), Dutch bedongen (“to bedung”), German bedüngen (“to bedung”).

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APA

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MLA

“bedung.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedung. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedung,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedung.

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