Dunghill.

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.