different between ordure vs ordurous

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.

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.