Definitions for dunghill

dunghill dung·hill

Spelling: [duhng-hil]
IPA: /ˈdʌŋˌhɪl/

Dunghill is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in dunghill (dghillnu).

Definitions for dunghill

noun

  1. a heap of dung.
  2. a repugnantly filthy or degraded place, abode, or situation.

Origin of dunghill

Middle English word dating back to 1275-1325; See origin at dung, hill

Examples for dunghill

If a flower grows on a dunghill, 't is still a flower, and not a part of the dunghill.

It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out.

The wind bore the unhappy fowl to a dunghill, where it left him for a moment.

At its worst it has collapsed into a death-trap or is rotting like a dunghill.

If you would be a nuisance, be a Drunkard; for the approach of a Drunkard is like that of a dunghill.

There were two Cocks—one on the dunghill, the other on the roof.

Throw me on a dunghill, and let me rot there, to infect the air!'

But we can say, we men of the nineteenth century, that the nineteenth century is not the dunghill.

So ye may do yur crowing on a dunghill, whar there be cocks like to be scared at it.

But like all dunghill products, the life of these was ephemeral.

Word Value for dunghill
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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