ordurousadj.
/ˈɔːdʒ(ə)rəs/, /ˈɔːdjərəs/, U.S. /ˈɔrdʒərəs/ Of the nature of ordure; filthy. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective]
uncleaneOE
horyc1000
foulOE
fennilicha1225
sutya1225
mixc1225
blackc1300
solwyc1325
bawdy1377
filthyc1384
nastyc1390
sowlyc1400
soryc1440
uncleanly1447
mossyc1450
dungyc1494
bedirted1528
slubberly?1529
filthish1530
deturpate?1533
mucky1538
stercorous1542
bluterc1550
dungish?1550
puddly1559
drumly1563
suddle1568
parbruilyiedc1586
sluttered1589
dirty1600
ordurous?1606
immund1621
turpie1633
sterquilinious1647
bruckled1648
cloacal1656
foede1657
stercorose1727
murky1755
sterquilinian1772
cloacinean1814
floy1820
poucey1829
stoachy1836
mullocky1839
muckering1841
sewery1851
dutty1853
dauby1855
cloacean1859
mucky1863
bilgy1878
cloacaline1879
muck-heapy1881
cloacinal1887
schmutzig1911
grufty1922
scabrous1939
mawkit1962
feechie1975
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [adjective]
stercorous1542
excremental1574
excrementitious1586
faecical1594
excrementous1600
turdyc1600
ordurous?1606
merdurinous1616
excrementious1636
stercorarious1656
stercorean1656
stercoreous1659
stercorary1664
stercorose1727
stercoraceous1731
stercoral1739
excremential1847
excrementitial1857
excretal1864
excretitiousc1865
excretory1878
fimetic1880
pooey1967
?1606 M. Drayton Eglog viii, in Poemes sig. F8 The rude times their ordurous matter fling Into their sacred and once hallowed spring.
1775 Observ. on Art of Brewing 3 Unless he can, like Dean Swift's ordurous philosopher, restore it to its primitive component parts.
1805 G. Huddesford Les Champignons du Diable 60 These thoughts..With tinsel sophistry bedizen'd, (As druggists gild, when quacks bespeak 'em, Pills ordurous of Album Græcum).
1891 Science 29 May 302/2 The large bulk of the lighter and more ordurous constituents [of a dust-cart].
1976 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 97 167 Hittite confirms a sense of ritual ablution by ordurous magical means.
1998 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 Sept. This kind of ‘rationalisation’ has two strong odors about it. One is the eager whiff of anticipation of continuing growth. The other is the ordurous stink of fear of oversupply.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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