bedung

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”).

bedung (third-person singular simple present bedungs, present participle bedunging, simple past and past participle bedunged)

1. (transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
2. (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.

• Budgen, Bugden, bunged

Akin to Maranao bedong.

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