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† ˈmuckhill, n. Obs.
Forms: see muck n.1 and hill n.; also, 5 muckelle, 6 mukylle, 7 muckel.
[f. muck n. + hill n.]
= muck-heap. Also fig.
1303[see muck-heap]. 1427Coventry Leet Bk. (E.E.T.S.) 113 Hit was ordeyned þat noman ley no more muke at þe cross beyonde the Newe-ȝate, but vppon þe mukhill besidis þe crosse. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 797/33 Hoc simarium, Hoc sterculinium, a muckelle. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 282 They rake vp clods of clay in a confused heape, as it were a muckhil. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. v. 109 Muckels, draughts, sinkes. ibid. iii. iv. i. i. 712 Why dost thou stand gaping on this drosse, muckhills, filthy excrements? a1781Jago Scavengers 52 Higher than our house our muck-hill rose!
attrib.1666Bunyan Grace Ab. §103 To leap with my head downward into some Muck-hill hole or other.
Hence † ˈmuckhill v. trans., to heap up with filth.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden T j b, Nor let him muckehill vp so manie pages in saying he lookt for termes of aqua fortis and gunpowder. |
