ordurous
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹd͡ʒʊɹəs/
Adjective
[edit]ordurous (comparative more ordurous, superlative most ordurous)
- Filthy; revolting.
- 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, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 137:
- […] the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow’s ordurous dropping.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 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.
- 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses his Birth and Miracles, Book 1, in The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, 1630, p. 137,[1]
- Pertaining to or consisting of ordure (dung).
- 2012 April 18, Maya Angelou, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Modern Library, →ISBN, page 126:
- […] brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow's ordurous dropping.
References
[edit]- “ordurous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.