ordurous
adjUS /ˈɔɹd͡ʒʊɹəs/
Etymology From ordure + -ous.
1
Filthy; revolting.
- His greeued spirit downe heauily doth way,1604, Michael Drayton, Moses his Birth and Miracles, Book 1, in The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, 1630, p. 137, The bondage and seruilitie that lay On buried Israel (sunke in ordurous slime)
- […] the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow’s ordurous dropping.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 137:
2 more examples
- Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 100:
- 1983, Bill Greenwell, limerick in E. O. Parrott (ed.) The Penguin Book of Limericks, 1984, p. 233, 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.
2
Pertaining to or consisting of ordure (dung).
- […] brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow's ordurous dropping.2012 April 18, Maya Angelou, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Modern Library, →ISBN, page 126: