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dung-hill

dung-hill is the alternative form of dunghill.

Meaning of dunghill

Noun

dunghill (plural dunghills)

  1. A heap of dung, especially one for agricultural purposes.
    • “A purty thing, indeed, that a child of her's shud be put an a shovel, an' flung out on the dunghill jist like a dead kitten or a pisoned rat; no, no, she wouldn't hear to that at all.”1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 522
    Synonyms:
    muckheap, dungheap
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) Any wretchedly mean, dirty or loathsome place, situation or condition.
    • He raiſeth vp the poore out of the duſt: and lifteth the needie out of the dung-hill:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 113:7–7, signature Ggg3, recto, column 1

Forms of dung-hill

pluraldung-hills

Questions about dung-hill

What is dung-hill the alternative form of?
Dung-hill is the alternative form of dunghill.

Words near dung-hill in the dictionary

  1. dung-beetles
  2. dung-flies
  3. dung-fly
  4. dung-heap
  5. dung-heaps
  6. dung-hill
  7. dung-hills
  8. dung-hunter
  9. dung-hunters
  10. Dungan
  11. Dungani

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