单词 | muckhill |
释义 | muckhilln. Now chiefly regional and archaic. = muck-heap n. 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 a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 995 (MED) Fimer [glossed:] mochul [v.rr. mockil, mochil]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 213 (MED) Þe governour..defouled þe paleys wiþ al þe filþe þat he myȝte—wiþ tunge and dritt of bestes, wiþ gaderynge of dunge and of filþe of mukhilles. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A. 2535 (MED) Whenne the sonne..shyneth on a mukehill..the doungehill is the more vnsauory and stynkyng alsoo. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 113 Ley no more muke at þe cross beyonde the Newe-ȝate, but vppon þe mukhill besidis þe crosse. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. A.iiiv With thy seruauntes compound: to carry thy muckhilles, on thy barley ground. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2 Greedinesse..busies himself..in syuing of Muck-hills and shop-dust. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. v. 109 Muckels, draughts, sinkes. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 712 Why dost thou stand gaping on this drosse, muckhills, filthy excrements[?]. 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §103 To leap with my head downward into some Muck-hill hole or other. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 270 They may stand in some muck-hill, or moist place, in order to supple their claws. 1758 R. Jago in R. Dodsley Coll. of Poems V. 80 Ah! gaffer Pestel, what brave days were those, When higher than our house our muck-hill rose? 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 94 If the muck's in the crew-yard you get nowt for it; if it's on the muck-hill it's so much a yard. 1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow iii. 51 The job was to..cart the manure to make muck-hales or hills in the fields whose turn it was to be dressed. 1986 L. Tourney Bartholomew Fair Murders (1987) vii. 75 Rose again was sent to the muckhill with another bucketful of garbage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † muckhillv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To heap up (rubbish); figurative in quot. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty [verb (transitive)] > heap up with dirt muckhill1596 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Tv Nor let him muckehill vp so manie pages in saying he lookt for termes of aqua fortis and gunpowder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1325v.1596 |
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