Meaning & use
Dungy
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Covered with, resembling, or smelling of dung.
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The farmhand's dungy boots were left by the back door before he came inside.
A dungy odor hung over the stable long after the animals had been moved out.
A note on using this word
The word appears in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," where "dungy earth" is contrasted with the grandeur of empire.
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