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单词 dung heap
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dung heapn.

Brit. /ˈdʌŋ hiːp/, U.S. /ˈdəŋ ˌhip/
Forms: see dung n.1 and heap n.; also early Middle English dinhhep.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dung n.1, heap n.
Etymology: < dung n.1 + heap n.
= dunghill n., in various senses.Despite occurring in many of the same senses, proverbial phrases, etc., as dunghill, dung heap has historically been considerably less common, although it has become more frequent in recent times.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] > dunghill
mixenOE
dung heap?a1300
miskinc1300
muckhilla1325
dunghillc1330
muck-heapa1400
middena1425
modyngstretea1500
dung mixenc1500
laystowa1513
mixhill1552
muck midden1552
laystall1553
middenstead1583
layheap1624
dung pile1658
midden lair1692
thurrock1708
stercorary1759
midden stance1844
?a1300 Sayings St. Bernard (Digby) in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 759 Loke wat comeþ out at þi mouþ, Ne findest þou non so fouvel dinghep [altered from dinhhep; a1350 Harl. dung-heep], Þey þou loke al abouten.
a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 232 Dynge hep of dynge.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. l. 265 Ypocrisie is a braunche of pruyde..ylikned in latyn to a lothliche dounghep [B text c1400 Laud 581 dongehul].
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 96 (MED) Eche wight is strong on his owen dung hep, and tristeth to his cuntree; He is heere in his cuntree, on his dung hep.
c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 2 If he see the ymage of god be defoulede and ly in the dounge-hepe of synnes.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xciij. 449 Ye white sort [of henbane] groweth..vppon dunge heapes.
1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix ii. iv. ii. 962 No stinking dung heape can pollute the shining Sunne.
1697 A. S. Husbandman, Farmer, & Grasier's Compl. Instructor 14 The Dung heaps of Swine must not be near their [sc. cattle] Stalls, for that subjects them to the Pestilence.
1732 Universal Spectator 23 Sept. To be always roving in quest of Carrion or a Dung-heap, what is it but the Life of a Grub?
1779 J. Abercrombie Garden Mushroom 20 Frequently in old dung-heaps some straggling Mushrooms are seen to rise naturally in Autumn.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage II. xi. 226 What further possibility was there now that he should care for..any other human being; he that was to be swept at once into the dung-heap?
1896 M. E. Kennard Riverside Romance xxix. 224 I resented these remarks., and answered back that he was an ignorant cock, who had better look to his own dung heap.
1913 N. Amer. Rev. June 811 The dung-heap of to-day is the flower-bed of to-morrow.
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) iii. 87 Is it any wonder I ended up a slut living in this dungheap?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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