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dunghilly

dunghilly adjective: resembling or characteristic of a dunghill.

Adjective

dunghilly (comparative more dunghilly, superlative most dunghilly)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dunghill.
    • Hours in the stables, learning to talk horsy and smell dunghilly.1872, Charles Reade, A Terrible Temptation, page 213

Forms of dunghilly

comparativemore dunghilly
superlativemost dunghilly

Origin of dunghilly

From dunghill + -y.

Questions about dunghilly

What does dunghilly mean?
Dunghilly means resembling or characteristic of a dunghill.
What part of speech is dunghilly?
Dunghilly is an adjective.

Words near dunghilly in the dictionary

  1. dungheap
  2. dungheaps
  3. dunghil
  4. dunghill
  5. dunghills
  6. dunghilly
  7. dunghils
  8. dunghole
  9. dungholes
  10. dunghouse
  11. dunghouses

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