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Definition of Dunghill

Dunghill
Dunghill Dung"hill`, n. 1. A heap of dung. 2. Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode. He . . . lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill. -- 1. Sam. ii. 8. Dunghill fowl, a domestic fowl of common breed.

Meaning of Dunghill from wikipedia

- The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years...
- Dung middens, also known as dung hills, are piles of dung that mammals periodically return to and build up. They are used as a form of territorial marker...
- found in the Gospels, was "as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill". By omitting miracles and the resurrection, Jefferson made the figure...
- amiss of God "shall be cut in pieces and their houses shall be made a dunghill". In a third story, Daniel interprets another dream as meaning that Nebuchadnezzar...
- Theatre (Upstairs), London (director: James McDonald) Fighting for the Dunghill ... Warehouse Theatre, Croydon (director: Richard Osborne) Separate Tables...
- dinghy. Non-trigraph ⟨ngh⟩ also occurs, in compounds like stronghold and dunghill. G is the tenth least frequently used letter in the English language (after...
- at the fingers' ends, as they say. Holofernes: O, I smell false Latine; dunghill for unguem. — Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare An 1866 article...
- supposedly born when a serpent hatches an egg that has been laid on a dunghill by a rooster and it is so venomous that its breath and its gaze are both...
- have communal, i.e., shared, latrines. A regularly used toilet area or dunghill, created by many mammals, such as moles or hyraxes, is also called a midden...
- at the fingers' ends, as they say. Holofernes: O, I smell false Latine; dunghill for unguem. The term was also mentioned by Thomas Jefferson in 1815, indicating...