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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

- 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...
- The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago....
- found in the Gospels, was "as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill". By omitting miracles and the resurrection, Jefferson made the figure...
- Theatre (Upstairs), London (director: James McDonald) Fighting for the Dunghill ... Warehouse Theatre, Croydon (director: Richard Osborne) Separate Tables...
- the last niche is about to wash his hands. In the bottom row: Job on the dunghill, Adam and Eve, Christ's entry into Jerusalem, Daniel in the lion's den...
- 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...
- auxiliary midden. A midden may be a regularly used animal toilet area or dunghill, created by many mammals, such as the hyrax, and also serving as a territorial...
- God raise up the poor out of the dust and lift up the beggar from the dunghill that he may sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory." Despite...
- at the fingers' ends, as they say. Holofernes: O, I smell false Latine; dunghill for unguem. Thomas Jefferson mentioned dog Latin by name in 1815: Fifty-two...
- metaphysical mushroom has grown not in the gardens of science but on the dunghill of servility." For Fries, Hegel's theories merely added up to a defence...