dunghill

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Recent Examples of dunghill In Shakespeare, Cade’s corpse ends up tossed over a dunghill. Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
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Noun
  • One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Animal manure is typically kept on site, which plays a significant role in air quality, according to the study.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • All that airborne guano is nature’s marine fertilizer, and scientists have been vastly underestimating how much seabird poop is actually fertilizing our oceans and coastlines.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to the study, the guano’s byproducts accelerated the formation of clouds by 10,000 times.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Like similar toilets, the bowl area is lined with a bag-like film that catches excrement and urine.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Evidence of damage includes chewed, cut or missing leaves; yellowing or brown leaves; white webbing and green-black excrement on or around the plant, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In East Chisenbury, sheep dominated the feast, and while the midden contained hundreds of thousands of animals, research showed they were, in contrast, locally sourced.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • At others middens, livestock was reared locally, according to the study.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Only one of us has other people pick up his poop in a bag.
    Bruce Headlam, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The inspector counted about 53 pieces of rodent poop, including 20 in the kitchen under a storage rack and 15 in a storage area under the ice bin and storage shelves and another 15 under a flip-top cooler.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When work is happening, enough sediment is stirred up that water can run discolored for about 24 hours after the process has been completed until the muck all settles out.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
  • McMillan looks like a future star Lost in the muck of the overall offensive performance against the Cardinals was McMillan.
    DIAMOND VENCES, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Take hydrangeas, a happy flower millions of years old that grows well in soil but wilts quickly when cut.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Gently lift it from the ground, and remove any loose soil from the roots as well as dead leaves or stems.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Dunghill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunghill. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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