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ˈmuck-heap
A manure-heap, midden. Also fig. So ˈmuck-heapy a.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2300 Þogh hyt [sc. þe sunne] on þe muk hepe [MS. D. mukhyl] shynes. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §17 Leue no dounge there-as the mucke-hepe stode. 1556Olde Antichrist 192 He hathe brought a confused muckeheape and burthen of ceremonies in to the churche. 1619Favour Antiq. Triumph xx. 518 A very midden or muckheap of all the grossest errors and heresies of the Romane Church. 1881Punch 29 Oct. 193/1 We sincerely hope that..His Grace [of Bedford] drove up Wellington Street, made at once for Mud-Salad Market, and..examined the streets ‘all round and about that quarter’, whose greasy, muck-heapy state is still a disgrace to the Metropolis in general. 1889I. Taylor Orig. Aryans iii. 182 There were muck-heaps in the palace of Priam. 1938‘N. Shute’ Ruined City vi. 112 One didn't finance a muck-heap of a country like Laevatia for fun. 1946Coast to Coast 1945 177 Somebody counted fourteen bottles on old Gormie's muck-heap. |