ordurous

== English == === Etymology === From ordure +‎ -ous. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹd͡ʒʊɹəs/ === Adjective === 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, 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. Pertaining to or consisting of ordure (dung). === References === “ordurous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.