merdurinous

merdurinous

English

Adjective

merdurinous (comparative more merdurinous, superlative most merdurinous)

1. (archaic, rare) Consisting of excrement and urine.
   • 163?, John Taylor, A Bawd

     Theſe are the right paternes of an induſtrious Bawd, for ſhee pickes her living out of the layſtall or dunghil of our vices ; if ſhe thrive and grow fat, it is with the Merdurinous draffe of our imperfections […]

   • 16??, Ben Jonson, Epigrams

     Of all your Night-tubs, when the Carts do cluster,
     Who shall discharge first his merdurinous Load […]

   • 2005, Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini, The poetics of transubstantiation: from theology to metaphor

     […] Catholics put their god through a double process of Transubstantiation, according to Oldham, one as merdurinous as it was miraculous: 'Down goes the tiny saviour at a bit', he writes with satirical relish, 'To be digested, and at length beshit […]

Related terms

• urinous