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Ordure vs Ordurous - What's the difference?

ordure | ordurous |

As a noun ordure

is excrement, dung.

As an adjective ordurous is

of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.

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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    ordurous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.100:
    • Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.
    (Drayton)
    (Webster 1913)