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 Dunghill!Dunkers. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dunghill.
 
Thou hast it, ad dunghill, at thy fingers’ ends. To this Holofernes replies: “Oh, I smell false Latin; ‘dunghill’ for ‘unguem.’” (Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, v. 1.)   1
 


 Dunghill!Dunkers. 

 
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