Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryResembling or characteristic of dung. · Covered in dung
From Middle English dongy, donky, dungy, equivalent to dung + -y. Probably a doublet of dingy.
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