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Ordure

Definition: Ordure

Ordure

Noun

1. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ordure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ordure \Or"dure\, noun. [French expression ordure, Old French ord filthy, foul, from the Latin expression horridus horrid. See Horrid.]. (references)

 

Synonyms: Ordure

Synonyms: dejection (n), faecal matter (n), faeces (n), fecal matter (n), feces (n), stool (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ordure

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ordure

English words defined with "ordure": BescummerMerdOrdurous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ordure": Catch your HareDraught-houseSaivas, scarabaeus. (references)
Etymologies containing "ordure": scoria. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ordure" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (filth, garbage, litter, muck, ordure, scum, trash, Wick).

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Modern Usage: Ordure

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Bel ordure (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Ordure

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Ordure

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

One of the guard, who had a hook on the end of his club, from time to time made a semblance of stirring up this heap of human ordure.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

A faint marshlight struggled upwards from all the ordure through the bristling greygreen weeds

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

He had a weekly allowance from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure about the size of a Bristol barrel

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ordure

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ordure

"Ordure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ordure" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ordure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

est le noel ordure pere une

3

ionique ordure

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Ordure

Language Translations for "ordure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pleh (carrion, crap, dressing, fertilizer, muck), ndyrësi (crap, dirt, dirtiness, enormity, filth, filthiness, muck, piggishness, salacity), jashtëqitje (defecation, dejection, excrement, excreta, faeces), bajgë (droppings, dung). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏تلفظ بكلام بذئ (muck), ‏القذارة (dirtiness), ‏دنس (defile, desecrate, grubby, impure, pollute, pollution, profane, profanity, scum, soil, sullying, violate). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сквернословие (obscenity), тор (dressing, fertilizer, manure, soil), мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, impurity, mess, muck, mud, obscenity, offscourings, squalor), мръсни приказки, мръсен език, изпражнения (dejecta, dirt, evacuations, excrement, faeces, matter, rejectamenta, slops, soil, stools, waste). (various references)

   

Czech

  

výkaly, sprostota (dirtiness, meanness, scurrility, vulgarity), latrína (latrine). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نحاست , زباله (Dump, Garbage, Rubbish), براز (Elegance, Grace). (various references)

   

French

  

ordure. (various references)

   

German

  

Kot (dirt, excrement, feces, filth, mire, muck, mud), schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, filth, grime, grimes, muck, mud, smudginess, smut, sordidness, squalor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κόπροσ (manure), ακαθαρσία (dirt, filth, impureness, impurity, lousiness, soil). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

זבל (compost, dung, excrement, garbage, manure, rubbish, trash), 'לל (because of, dung, excrement, for the sake of, turd), צוא" (dung, excrement, faeces, filth, stool, turd). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

trágya (chip, dung, excrement, fertilizer, manure, muck), trágárság (filth, foulness, indecency, nastiness, obscenity, scurrility, smut, smuttiness), mocsok (Colly, creep, defilement, grime, muck, scuz, scuzz, sleaze, sleazebag, smirch, sodding, squalor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mota, escremento (excrement, faeces). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keck (crap, droppings, dung, excrement, faeces), gaerr (diarrhoea, dung). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ordureay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

obscenidade (bawdy, blackguardism, dirt, foulness, impurity, indecency, obscene, ribaldry, scurrility, smut), linguagem chula, imundície (carrion, dirt, dirtiness, feculence, filth, foulness, muck, sludge, slush, soil, squalor), excremento (excrement, rejectamenta), esterco (dirt, dung, fertilizer, manure, muck, scat). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), imoralitate (amorality, immorality, licentiousness, nastiness, profligacy), excremente (excrement, excrements, faeces), dezmãţ (anarchy, confusion, debauchery, disorder, dissipation, riot), cuvinte urâte, bãlegar (manure, muck). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грязь (dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, grime, grubbiness, gunge, mire, muck, mud, muddiness, puddle, slob, sludge, sordidness, squalor, squelch), непристойность (bawdiness, indecency, obscenity, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, scurrility), навоз (dung, manure, muck), мусор (garbage, gubbish, litter, refuse, rubbish, slop, sweepings, trash). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nečistoća (dirt, dross, filth, impurity, muck, recrement), đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, junk, laystall, muck, offscourings, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

obscenidad (bawdiness, dirt, dirtiness, lewdness, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, smuttiness), lodo (dirt, mire, mud, slime, sludge), inmundicia (dirt, filth, uncleanliness), excrementos (faeces, rejectamenta), estiércol (dung, manure, muck). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smuts (dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, muck, night-soil, squalor), dynga (dung, fertilizer, manure, muck). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อุจจาระ (faeces, feces). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), gübre (cowpat, dressing, droppings, dung, fertilizer, manure, muck, plant-food, soil). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сміття (garbage, mullock, raffle, waste), розпуста (bawdry, debauch, harlotry, lechery, ribaldry, wantonness, whoredom), грязь (mud, plonk, slob, slobber, smudge, soil), гній (atter, dung, manure, matter, muck, purulence, pus, soil), нечистоти (night-soil, scum, sewage, sewerage), непристойність (bawdry, coarseness, filth, immodesty, impurity, indecency, lewdness, obsceneness, obscenity, opprobriousness, salacity, scurrility, smut), екскременти (cast, excrements, rejectamenta), лайка (abuse, altercation, barge, chevrette, curse, damn, dog-skin, hassle, kid-skin, oath, scold, swear word, vituperation). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phân (cack, rejectamenta, segment), cứt lời tục tĩu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ordure

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

horridus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

ordure. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ordure

Derivations

Words beginning with "ordure": ordures. (additional references)

Words ending with "ordure": bordure. (additional references)

Words containing "ordure": bordures. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ordure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardura, ardure, Lordore, Nordgren, odore, Odrodek, odue, odure, Ohrdruf, orderer, ordeure, Ordie, ordor, ordora, ordre, ordri, Ordu, ordurve, Orodruin, Ortrud, Oruro, rodderpee, Rokuro, roure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ordure"

Words rhyming with "ordure" (pronounced 'Or"dure'): Bordure, Procedure, Rejoindure, Reverdure, Rondure, Roundure, supersedure, Verdure. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ordure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dourer.

Words within the letters "d-e-o-r-r-u"

-1 letter: order, ruder, uredo.

-2 letters: doer, dore, dorr, dour, dure, duro, durr, euro, redo, rode, roue, rude, rued, ruer.

-3 letters: doe, dor, due, duo, err, ode, ore, oud, our, red, rod, roe, rue, udo, urd.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-o-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: bordure, ordures, prouder, rondure, rounder, rumored.

 

+2 letters: arboured, armoured, bordures, bourride, burrowed, devourer, frondeur, furrowed, grounder, obtruder, occurred, outrider, overrude, procured, producer, protrude, reductor, reground, repoured, rerouted, rondures, rounders, rumoured, suborder, tortured.

 

+3 letters: bordereau, bourrides, burladero, concurred, corrupted, devourers, drouthier, drugstore, durometer, frondeurs, grounders, harboured, murderous, obtruders, outriders, outroared, outwarred, overcured, overdrunk, overruled, overtured, overurged, procedure, producers, prorogued, protruded, protrudes, purported, rearoused, rebounder, reductors, regrouped, reproduce, suborders, superroad, unarmored, unordered, unworried, verdurous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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