ordure

English

Etymology

From Old French ordure, from ord ‘filthy’, from Latin horridus ’horrid’, + -ure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɔːdjʊə/

Noun

ordure (plural ordures)

1. excrement, dung
   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron

     The bowels and bladder collapsed, sheets and mattress had to be burnt at the bottom of the back garden. The body, having vulgarly shed its ordures, now turned into an ordure itself.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 99

     Only Madame herself seeing Jacob out had about her that leer, that lewdness, that quake of the surface (visible in the eyes chiefly), which threatens to spill the whole bag of ordure, with difficulty held together, over the pavement.

Translations

excrement, dung

• Armenian: գոմաղբ (hy) (gomaġb) 
• Dutch: uitwerpselen (nl) n pl, afval (nl) n
• Navajo: chąąʼ

• Russian: экскременты (ru) pl (ekskrementy)
• Scottish Gaelic: buachar (gd) m

Anagrams

• dourer

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French

Etymology

From Old French from ord, from Latin horridus.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ɔʀdyʀ/

Noun

ordure f (plural ordures)

1. garbage, refuse
2. dung, animal faeces
3. (slang) obscenity, filthy material
4. (slang, pejorative) a filthy person

Anagrams

• doreur, dorure, rôdeur