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dunghill

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dung·hill  (dnghl)
n.
1. A heap of animal excrement.
2. A foul, degraded condition or place.
dunghill [ˈdʌŋˌhɪl]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) a heap of dung
2. a foul place, condition, or person
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dunghill - a foul or degraded condition
unsanitariness - a state that is not conducive to health
2.dunghill - a heap of dung or refuse
muckheap, muckhill, midden
cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other
Translations
dunghill [ˈdʌŋhɪl] N → estercolero m
dunghill [ˈdʌŋˌhɪl] n → letamaio
dunghill [ˈdʌŋˌhɪl] n → letamaio


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You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
He squirms on his dunghill, and like a child lost in the dark among goblins, calls to the gods that he is their younger brother, a prisoner of the quick that is destined to be as free as they--monuments of egotism reared by the epiphenomena; dreams and the dust of dreams, that vanish when the dreamer vanishes and are no more when he is not.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Fifty-and-three have I slain in my youth without a wound, and now for many years I have challenged, like a cock on a dunghill, and none crow in answer.
Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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