bedung

verb — 2 senses

bedung

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”).

1

To cover with dung or manure.

2

Figuratively, Sometimes 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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