ordure
Plural: ordures
Noun
- Excrement or dung; a foul or offensive substance.
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
- Dung, excrement.
- Dirt, filth.
- Something regarded as contaminating or perverting the morals; obscene material.
Examples
- The tiles on his rack felt like ordure, completely unplayable and low-scoring.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ordure, ordure, borrowed from Middle French ordure and Anglo-Norman ordure, ordeur(e), ordor(e), ordour from Old French ordure (“dirt, filth, refuse; dung, excrement; moral filth”) (modern French ordure), from ord (“filthy”) + -ure (suffix forming nouns describing the results of actions). Ord is derived from Latin horridus (“dreadful, frightful, horrid”), from horreō (“to stand erect, stand on end; to shiver, tremble; to be afraid of, dread; to be frightful”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff; surprised”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’).
Synonyms
BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, stool, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, boo-boo, boom-boom, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud, danna, dirt, do do, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, droppings, dump, dumplings, dung, excrement, faex, flop, fudge, gong, guano, ish, jobby, log, merd, muck, nature, night soil, number two, ordure, poo, poo-poo, pooh, poop, poopie, poopy, pure, purging, scat, sharn, shit, shite, soil, thost, tom tit, turd, waste
Scrabble Score: 7
ordure: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordordure: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ordure: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary