ordurous
/ˈɔɹd͡ʒʊɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to or consisting of ordure (dung).
Example Sentences
- "His greeued spirit downe heauily doth way,"
- "[…] the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow’s ordurous dropping."
- "Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major."
- "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."
- "[…] brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow's ordurous dropping."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹd͡ʒʊɹəs/
Inflected Forms
more ordurous (comparative)
most ordurous (superlative)