feculent
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See also: féculent
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- fæculent (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)
- Dirty with faeces or other impurities
- 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.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 84:
Translations[edit]
feculent
References[edit]
- feculent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.