ordurous

ordurous

English

Etymology

ordure +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹd͡ʒʊɹəs/

Adjective

ordurous (comparative more ordurous, superlative most ordurous)

1. Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
   • 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses his Birth and Miracles, Book 1, in The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, 1630, p. 137,

     The bondage and seruilitie that lay

     On buried Israel (sunke in ordurous slime)

     His greeued spirit downe heauily doth way,

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 137,

     […] the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow’s ordurous dropping.

   • 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.

   • 1983, Bill Greenwell, limerick in E. O. Parrott (ed.) The Penguin Book of Limericks, 1984, p. 233,

     The reason we’re asked to endure

     A gutter press, smutty, impure,

     Is that old river Fleet,

     Whose name’s on the street,

     Is an ordurous, underground sewer.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ordurous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)