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Definition: Ordure |
OrdureNoun1. 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: OrdureSynonyms: dejection (n), faecal matter (n), faeces (n), fecal matter (n), feces (n), stool (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Ordure |
| English words defined with "ordure": Bescummer ♦ Merd ♦ Ordurous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ordure": Catch your Hare ♦ Draught-house ♦ Saivas, 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bel ordure (1973) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
est le noel ordure pere une | 3 |
ionique ordure | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | horridus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | ordure. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ordure": ordures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ordure": bordure. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ordure": bordures. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| Words rhyming with "ordure" (pronounced 'Or"dure'): Bordure, Procedure, Rejoindure, Reverdure, Rondure, Roundure, supersedure, Verdure. (additional references) |
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. | |
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