单词 | dung mixen |
释义 | > as lemmasdung mixen dung mixen n. (also dungmexin) now English regional a place where dung or other organic refuse is kept; a dung pit or dunghill; a midden; cf. mixen n. 1a. ΘΚΠ 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 c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 875 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 253 So into a foule donge myxen he her caryed. 1673 J. Dare Counsellor Manners xcii. 145 The Murtherer his Host..had killed and buried him in his Dung-Mixon. 1799 J. Banister Synopsis Husbandry i. vii. 34 The proper management of a dung mixen is attended with no trifling expence. 1862 Border Watch (Mt. Gambier, S. Austral.) 21 Feb. The embers of a kitchen fire had been thrown out near the dung mixen. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 34 Dungmexin, the dungheap in the farmyard. < as lemmas |
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