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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUNGHILL, n.
1. A heap of dung.
2. A mean or vile abode.
3. Any mean situation or condition.
He lifteth the beggar from the dunghill. 2 Samuel 2.
4. A term of reproach for a man meanly born. [Not used.]
DUNGHILL, a. Sprung from the dunghill; mean; low; base; vile.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a foul or degraded condition
2: a heap of dung or refuse [syn: dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. a heap of dung 2. something (as a situation or condition) that is repulsive or degraded

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a heap of dung or refuse, esp. in a farmyard.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

dung'-hil ('ashpoth, 1Sa 2:8, madhmenah, etc., with other words; kopria, Lu 14:35): Dung heap, or place of refuse. To sit upon a dunghill (1Sa 2:8; Ps 113:7; La 4:5) is significant of the lowest and most wretched condition. To turn a house into a dunghill (Da 2:5; 3:29), or be flung upon a dunghill (Lu 14:35), marks the extreme of ignominy. See also DUNG.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS.