单词 | dunghilled |
释义 | † dunghilledadj. Obsolete. rare. 1. Of low or inferior rank, birth, or character; debased or degenerate; ignoble, base. Cf. dunghill adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective] low-bred1599 dunghilled1600 ungenteel1633 underbred1650 half-bred1694 ingenteel1694 ungentlemanlike1719 lowlife1728 under-degreed1748 lower class1812 downstairs1819 low-class1836 wrong1859 (as) common as dirt (also muck)1877 plebbish1928 downscale1930 non-U1954 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [adjective] leasteOE wokec897 littleOE lowc1175 eathlyc1200 smallc1275 simplec1300 meana1375 humblec1386 ignoble1447 servile1447 base1490 slighta1500 sober1533 silly1568 unresponsal1579 dunghilled1600 villainous1607 without name1611 woollena1616 dunghilly1616 unresponsible1629 under-stateda1661 low-down1865 1600 W. Vaughan Golden-groue iii. lviii. sig. Bb4 Caualeering groomes, and dunghilled knaues, are straightly prohibited to weare the same sutes and apparell as Gentlemen. 1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction iii. v. 96 Ambition is an honourable thought of high spirits... Patience is but a Poets fancy to be practized by ignoble groomes, and dunghilled spirits. 2. Perhaps: thrown on a dunghill.This quot. may perhaps belong at sense 1 (or may show a different word), but perhaps compare Jeremiah 22:19, ‘He shalbe buryed as an asse is buryed, euen drawen and cast forthe without the gates of Ierusalem. [Note] Not honorably amongs his fathers, but as carions are cast in a hole because their stinke shulde not infect.’ (Geneva Bible, 1560). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [adjective] > thrown on a dunghill dunghilled1606 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. To Rdr. 332 As if a dungled Asse should die. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1600 |
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