Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dunghill.

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Examples

  • It is sad that as an English born goy, I feel better protected by Israel than the government of my own country and I am fast losing faith in our Transatlantic allies who seem to be suffering as much from the scourge of Quislings and imported subversives as our own benighted muck-heap.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Then we will indeed experience climate change - a cultural climate change involving the politics of oppression and levelling down (with the exception of course of the soviet cabal at the top of the muck-heap).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Earth road past these cottages is like a muck-heap and said to be almost impassable in winter.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • A scrap of cloth hung here and there from the bushes, and the rotten flowers formed a yellow muck-heap beneath the citron trees.

    Salammbo 2003

  • Scoff as people might about me taking over my father's licence, I had found that childhood skills came back after nineteen years as naturally as riding a bicycle; and few lonely children could grow up in a racing stable without learning the trade from the muck-heap up.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

  • Scoff as people might about me taking over my father's licence, I had found that childhood skills came back after nineteen years as naturally as riding a bicycle; and few lonely children could grow up in a racing stable without learning the trade from the muck-heap up.

    Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

  • If it's Junior, I'll throw him on to the muck-heap!

    Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960

  • And in the very vortex of this muck-heap -- astounding to the traveller -- are content to live wealthy Jews, happy to flourish all their lives shoulder to shoulder with unutterable squalor.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • His success as a trader might have given the head of the house a country place in England, shady lawns, a carriage and pair to drive in: he preferred his own muck-heap.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • And I add, when thou shalt see the stars of heaven tumble down to hell, canst thou think that such a muck-heap of sin as thou art shall be lifted up to heaven?

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

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  • According to the definition for muck, I thought this might also include a compost pile/heap.

    July 20, 2015