noun
molehill
MOHL-hihl
noun
1
A small mound of earth pushed up by a burrowing mole.
"The gardener flattened a molehill that had appeared overnight."
How to Use Molehill
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA small pile of dirt made by a mole — best known from the idiom about exaggerating small problems.
Common pairings
make a mountain out of a molehill
Word Forms
molehilled past tense, molehills plural, molehills singular
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Etymology
A compound of mole and hill; the verb sense comes from the idiom "make a mountain out of a molehill."