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bedung en · VERB

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
2. (figuratively, sometimes, transitive) To 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:

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