dunghillnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʌŋ.hɪl/us/ˈdʌŋ.hɪl/a small pile of solid animal waste
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Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
- accident
- anal fissure
- bathroom
- be caught/taken short idiom
- bowel movement
- call of nature idiom
- cowpat
- crap
- dump
- go to the bathroom idiom
- guano
- melaena
- mess
- motion
- move
- pass
- powder your nose idiom
- regular
- shite
- turd
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Examples from literature
- And all wheelbarrows, carts, dunghills, oyster-shells, cabbage-stalks, and other four-wheeled carriages, must be swept out of the streets.
- Napoleon already lay dead upon the dunghill.
- Such flowers do not often grow, or at least do not easily grow, on such dunghills.
- This roof is covered first with grass, and then with earth, so that the outward appearance is like a dunghill.