feculent

See also: féculent

English

Alternative forms

• fæculent (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/

Adjective

feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)

1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities; turbid; foul, filthy, fetid.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 84:

     At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

References

• feculent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913