Meanings
adjective
- uncommonPertaining to dung, ordurous; (figuratively) filthy or revolting.
[…] humanity's dungish ways, […]
2004, John Gatta, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment ...1 more example
[…] joy followeth; so doth peace, quietness, content, and love; which is also the fulfilling of the law: yet not from such dungish principles as yours, for so the apostle calls them, Phil. iii, but from the Holy Ghost itself:
1784, John Bunyan, The Whole Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, page 1300
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dungish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dungish
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“dungish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dungish. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dungish,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dungish.
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