Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dunghill.
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Examples
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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
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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
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Earth road past these cottages is like a muck-heap and said to be almost impassable in winter.
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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
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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
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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
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If it's Junior, I'll throw him on to the muck-heap!
Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960
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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
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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
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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
vendingmachine commented on the word muck-heap
According to the definition for muck, I thought this might also include a compost pile/heap.
July 20, 2015