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Etymology

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From dung +‎ -y.

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Adjective

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dungy (comparative dungier, superlative dungiest)

  1. 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 []
  2. 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.

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