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Feces vs Ordure - What's the difference?

feces | ordure |

Ordure is a synonym of feces.



As nouns the difference between feces and ordure

is that feces is digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement while ordure is excrement, dung.

feces

English

(wikipedia feces)

Alternative forms

* faeces (British), (archaic)

Noun

(en-plural noun) (North American spelling)
  • Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement.

    • Usage notes

    * This word can be used with plural verbs ("feces have a strong smell") or singular ones ("feces has a strong smell"). Use with plural verbs is more common, especially in Britain, and is the only use recognized by some dictionaries,

    Synonyms

    * (discharged animal waste) excrement, faecal matter, guano (of birds or bats only), manure (not used of human faeces) * night soil (euphemistic) * doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic) * crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar) * See also

    Related terms

    * defecate * fecal * feceate * feculence * feculent

    References

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    ordure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • excrement, dung
  • * 1988 ,
    • 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, , 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.

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