ordurous

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English

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Etymology

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From ordure +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ordurous (comparative more ordurous, superlative most ordurous)

  1. Filthy; revolting.
    • 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses his Birth and Miracles, Book 1, in The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, 1630, p. 137,[1]
      The bondage and seruilitie that lay
      On buried Israel (sunke in ordurous slime)
      His greeued spirit downe heauily doth way,
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 137:
      [] the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow’s ordurous dropping.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 100:
      Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.
    • 1983, Bill Greenwell, limerick in E. O. Parrott (ed.) The Penguin Book of Limericks, 1984, p. 233,[3]
      The reason we’re asked to endure
      A gutter press, smutty, impure,
      Is that old river Fleet,
      Whose name’s on the street,
      Is an ordurous, underground sewer.
  2. Pertaining to or consisting of ordure (dung).
    • 2012 April 18, Maya Angelou, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Modern Library, →ISBN, page 126:
      [] brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow's ordurous dropping.

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