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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
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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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