Antonyms for ordure
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : awr-jer, ‐dyoo r |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr dʒər, ‐dyʊər |
Definition of ordure
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French ordure "filth, uncleanliness" (12c.), from ord, ort "filthy, dirty, foul," from Latin horridus "dreadful" (see horrid).
- As in feces : noun excrement
- As in droppings : noun excrement
- As in dung : noun excrement
- As in excrement : noun excretion
- As in filth : noun dirt, pollution
- Unionism and order: Separatism and ordure—that is about the sum.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- But I have certain sensitive places in my soul: I do not like that word "ordure."
- Extract from : « How He Lied to Her Husband » by George Bernard Shaw
- The nobility had died, the aristocracy had marched to imbecility or ordure!
- Extract from : « Against The Grain » by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- The students laugh at him and make him tipsy; the street boys pelt him with ordure; the better cafes turn him from their doors.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- Ordure palpable and abominable was plentiful, and the swollen carcasses of small animals exhaled their biting wafts.
- Extract from : « The Chequers » by James Runciman
- Fox was at various times thrust into dungeons filled ankle-deep with ordure, and was shot at, beaten with stones and clubs, etc.
- Extract from : « John Greenleaf Whittier » by W. Sloane Kennedy
- Both strayed off upon the180 plain to gather the taquia, or ordure of the cattle, though no cattle were in sight.
- Extract from : « Popular Adventure Tales » by Mayne Reid
- The Anthidia have shown us how, in their cotton-wool wallets, they manufacture a sort of jewellery with their ordure.
- Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre
- Under its thick mantle of ordure the grub of the Lily-beetle escapes the troubles so fatal to its cousin of the asparagus.
- Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre
- Mr. Vincent tells me that they have a horror of cattle, and will not touch the ordure, or other products of the cow.
- Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston
Synonyms for ordure
- body waste
- carrion
- chips
- contamination
- corruption
- cow pies
- cowplop
- crap
- crud
- defilement
- discharge
- dregs
- droppings
- dung
- egesta
- ejecta
- ejectamenta
- evacuation
- excrement
- excreta
- fecal matter
- feces
- feculence
- fertilizer
- filthiness
- foul matter
- foulness
- garbage
- grime
- guano
- impurity
- manure
- meadow muffin
- mire
- muck
- mud
- nastiness
- night soil
- ordure
- perspiration
- poop
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- refuse
- rottenness
- secretion
- sediment
- sewage
- silt
- sleaze
- slime
- slop
- sludge
- slush
- smut
- stool
- sweat
- trash
- uncleanness
- urine
- waste matter
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