bedung
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Etymology[edit]
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”).
Verb[edit]
bedung (third-person singular simple present bedungs, present participle bedunging, simple past and past participle bedunged)
- (transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To bedaub or defile.
- 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
- […] 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.
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bedung
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