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Dunghill

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Thou hast it, ad dunghill, at thy fingersʹ ends. To this Holofernes replies: “Oh, I smell false Latin; ‘dunghillʹ for ‘unguem.ʹ” (Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, v. 1.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dun
Dun Cow
Dun in the Mire
Dunce
Dunciad
Dunderhead
Dundreary (Lord)
Dungaree
Dunghill!
Dunghill
Dunkers
Dunmow
Dunmow Flitch
Duns Scotus
Dunstable
Dunstan (St.)
Duodecimo
Duomo (The)
Dup
Dupes