different between filthy vs ordurous

English

Etymology

From Middle English filthy, filthi, equivalent to filth +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?i/

Adjective

filthy (comparative filthier, superlative filthiest)

1. Covered with filth; very dirty.
2. Obscene or offensive.
3. Very unpleasant or disagreeable.

Synonyms

• (covered with filth): sleazy, slimy, grimy, horry
• (obscene): gruesome, smutty

Antonyms

• (covered with filth): pristine
• (obscene): holy, venerable

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

filthy (third-person singular simple present filthies, present participle filthying, simple past and past participle filthied)

1. (transitive) To make very dirty; to cover in filth.
   • 2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen

     He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.

English

Etymology

ordure +? -ous

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d????s/

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,^[1]

     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,^[2]

     […] 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,^[3]

     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.