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Grammar : Noun
Spell : duhng-hil
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌŋˌhɪl



Definition of dunghill

Origin :
  • early 14c., from dung + hill (n.).
  • As in refuse : noun garbage
Example sentences :
  • Throw me on a dunghill, and let me rot there, to infect the air!'
  • Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
  • It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out.
  • Extract from : « Gathering Jewels » by James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles
  • But like all dunghill products, the life of these was ephemeral.
  • Extract from : « Four Years in Rebel Capitals » by T. C. DeLeon
  • But we can say, we men of the nineteenth century, that the nineteenth century is not the dunghill.
  • Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
  • At its worst it has collapsed into a death-trap or is rotting like a dunghill.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • So ye may do yur crowing on a dunghill, whar there be cocks like to be scared at it.
  • Extract from : « The Free Lances » by Mayne Reid
  • There were two Cocks—one on the dunghill, the other on the roof.
  • Extract from : « What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales » by Hans Christian Andersen
  • If you would be a nuisance, be a Drunkard; for the approach of a Drunkard is like that of a dunghill.
  • Extract from : « Select Temperance Tracts » by American Tract Society
  • If a flower grows on a dunghill, 't is still a flower, and not a part of the dunghill.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 » by Various
  • The wind bore the unhappy fowl to a dunghill, where it left him for a moment.
  • Extract from : « Laboulaye's Fairy Book » by Various

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