different between obdure vs ordure

English

Verb

obdure (third-person singular simple present obdures, present participle obduring, simple past and past participle obdured)

1. (obsolete) To harden.
   • 1626, Joseph Hall, Saint Paul's Combat. Part II

     […] this spiritual edge shall either turn again, or, through our weak wieldance, not enter the stubborn and thick hide of obdured hearts […]

Anagrams

• rubedo

English

Etymology

From Middle English ordure, ordure, borrowed from Middle French ordure and Anglo-Norman ordure, ordeur(e), ordor(e), ordour from Old French ordure (“dirt, filth, refuse; dung, excrement; moral filth”) (modern French ordure), from ord (“filthy”) + -ure (suffix forming nouns describing the results of actions). Ord is derived from Latin horridus (“dreadful, frightful, horrid”), from horre? (“to stand erect, stand on end; to shiver, tremble; to be afraid of, dread; to be frightful”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *??ers- (“stiff; surprised”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???dj(?)?/, /-d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d???/
• Hyphenation: or?dure

Noun

ordure (countable and uncountable, plural ordures)

1. Dung, excrement.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
2. (by extension) Dirt, filth.
3. (by extension) Something regarded as contaminating or perverting the morals; obscene material.

Derived terms

• ordurous

Translations

References

Further reading

• human waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dourer

French

Etymology

From Old French ord (“filthy”), from Latin horridus (“horrid”), + -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.dy?/

Noun

ordure f (plural ordures)

1. garbage, refuse
2. dung, animal faeces
3. (slang) obscenity, filthy material
4. (slang, derogatory) a filthy person

Further reading

• “ordure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• doreur, dorure, rôdeur

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ordoure, ordre, ordur (all rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ordure and Anglo-Norman ordure, ordeur(e), ordor(e), ordour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?diu?r(?)/

Noun

ordure (plural ordures)

1. ordure, excrement
2. (by extension) filth, rubbish
3. (figuratively) moral filth, iniquity

Descendants

• English: ordure

References

• “ord?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.