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ordure

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or·dure  (ôrjr)
n.
1. Excrement; dung.
2. Something morally offensive; filth.

[Middle English, from Old French, from ord, filthy, from Latin horridus, frightful, from horrre, to shudder.]

ordure [ˈɔːdjʊə]
n
1. excrement; dung
2. something regarded as being morally offensive
[via Old French, from ord dirty, from Latin horridus shaggy]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ordureordure - solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
dog do, dog shit, dog turd, doggy do - fecal droppings from a dog
body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion - waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
poop, shit, shite, turd, crap, dirt - obscene terms for feces
droppings, dung, muck - fecal matter of animals
meconium - thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
melaena, melena - abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding)
Translations
ordure [ˈɔːdjʊəʳ] N (lit, fig) → inmundicia f
ordure
n (liter) (= excrement)Kot m; (= rubbish)Unrat m, → Unflat m (geh); (liter fig)Schmutz m no pl


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He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.
The literary histories might keep record of them, but it is loath some to think of those heaps of ordure, accumulated from generation to generation, and carefully passed down from age to age as something precious and vital, and not justly regarded as the moral offal which they are.
of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it
 
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