ordurous

comparative more ordurous · superlative most ordurous

1. Filthy; revolting.

   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.

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   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

   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

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