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单词 ordure
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orduren.

Brit. /ˈɔːdj(ʊ)ə/, /ˈɔːdʒə/, U.S. /ˈɔrdʒər/
Forms: Middle English ordour, Middle English ordoure, Middle English ordre, Middle English odure (transmission error), Middle English–1500s ordur, Middle English– ordure, 1500s urdeur, 1600s order.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ordure.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ordure, ordeure, ordore, ordeur, ordour, ordur and Middle French ordure filth, dirt, moral defilement (1121–34 in Old French), excrement (1316) < ord dirty, filthy (early 12th cent.; < classical Latin horridus horrid adj.) + -ure -ure suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin ordura1248, 1313 in British sources.It is unclear whether the following should be taken as evidence for the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1275 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 23 [Wool..clean and dry, and well-washed, without any manner of] ordure. With the form order compare discussion in E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §282 of evidence for homophony of ordure and order in the 17th cent.
1.
a. Excrement, dung.†Formerly also in plural (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 428 Of the hyndre part of hire buttokes, it is ful horrible for to see, for certes in that partie of hire body ther as they purgen hire stynkynge ordure [v.r. ordre].
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xxviii. 27 The Lord smyte the part of bodi wherbi ordures ben voyded.
1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 104v/1 In the same place he made his ordure.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 70 They will..disburden themselues one waie or other, by ordure, vrine, or some other matter.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 911 Mingle Attick honey with the first ordure the Infant makes.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 258 One of Swift's Yahoos, or Virgil's obscene Harpyes, squirting their ordure upon the Trojan trenchers.
1774 T. Warton Hist Eng. Poetry (1840) III. xlix. 209 Dante represents some of his criminals rolling themselves in human ordure.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi viii. 181 Ordure is deposited around countless villages.
1895 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 24 424 The eating of human ordure, practised by some tribes at their ceremonies of initiation.
1931 J. Gavorse Suetonius' Lives Twelve Caesars vii. 317 Some pelted him with dung and ordure.
1986 D. Potter Ticket to Ride (1987) xii. 89 The glistening sewers with their floating lumps of ordure and scrabbling hunch-backed rats.
2000 New Scientist 29 Apr. 46/2 The notion that disease arose from foulness..prompted sanitary reformers to organise the rapid removal of ordure from city streets and drains.
b. More generally: filth, dirt. Now frequently merging with sense 1a.†Formerly also in plural (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun]
gorec725
horeeOE
filthOE
foulnessOE
dirta1300
gallc1400
ordurec1400
foulinga1425
harlotry1439
muck1440
noisance1473
horeness1495
vileness1495
naughtiness1533
vility1540
bawdiness1552
vildness1597
snottery1598
soilage1598
sordidity1600
soil?1605
sluttery1607
nastiness1611
bawdry1648
sords1653
crott1657
feculence1662
nast1789
clart1808
schmutz1838
crap1925
grunge1965
gunge1969
grot1971
spooge1987
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1092 (MED) By nobleye of his norture he nolde never towche Oȝt þat watz vngoderly oþer ordure watz inne.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. 724 Fret with old rust, gadreth gret ordure.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Oiijv Water..where into ronneth no vrdeurs of cites.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) f.70v Boile this together..and if there bee any ordure or fylth at the bottom, you must take it away.
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1019 The ordure, which continually gathers on the skin, would soon stop the pores of it, if the sweat were not furnisht with some efficacious dissolvent to open and pierce them.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Ear An Ulcer often..is occasion'd by a Wound, some Hurt, or some Ordure that is corrupted in the Ear.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 236 The youth..Fell, in the victims' gore and the ordure meeting with ill.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker v. 67 I beheld (in imagination) myself,..driving..to the nearest rubbish heap, and dumping there, among the ordures of a city, the beloved child of my invention [sc. a statue].
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 10 June ii. 9 We rush out to the compost and poke about... We both grovel in the reeking ordure, looking particularly carefully near melon scraps.
2. figurative and in extended use. That which corrupts, defiles, or fouls morally; obscene language, writing, action, etc.; an instance of this.Cf. dirt n. 6b, filth n. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun]
balec1220
ordurec1390
revile1439
brawlingc1440
railing1466
opprobry?a1475
revilingc1475
vituperation1481
vituper1484
vitupery1489
convicy1526
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
pelta1540
oblatration?1552
words of mischief1555
abuse1559
inveighing1568
invection1590
revilement1590
invective1602
opprobration1623
invecture1633
thunder and lightning1638
raillery1669
rattlinga1677
blackguarding1742
pillory1770
slang1805
slangwhanging1809
bullyragging1820
slanging1856
bespattering1862
bespatterment1870
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
slagging1956
flak1968
verbal1970
handbagging1987
pelters1992
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] > cause of
corrumpciona1340
corruptiona1340
ordurec1390
ulcer1592
taint1623
corruptive1641
depravation1711
virus1778
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [noun] > polluting or defiling > that which
ordurec1390
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 157 In stynkynge ordure of synne.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 385 Allas, allas, so noble a creature As is a man shal dreden swich ordure.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. 470 In Chaumpayne folk hadde of the disdeyn for thi most hatful, lecherous ordure.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxvii Knowynge theyr owne vyce, and lyfe full of ordure..Yet synne they styll.
1682 J. Dryden Medall 12 Those let me curse; what vengeance will they urge, Whose Ordures neither Plague nor Fire can purge.
1739 H. Baker & J. Miller School for Wives Criticis'd iii. 277 If you please, point me out some of this Ordure you speak of... I only ask of you one Passage that was very shocking to you.
1769 T. Smollett Adventures of Atom II. 73 Corruption, the ordure of which is as necessary to anoint the wheels of government in Japan, as grease is to smear the axle-tree of a loaded wagon.
1814 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 224 These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 49 I have been forced to hold my nose in picking my way through these ordures of Dryden.
1947 N. Mitford Let. 6 Dec. (1993) 197 People shout ordures at you from vans.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential iii. xxvi. 300 Twenty years of Rooseveltism has tainted us with the noxious virus of vote-catching ordure that desensitized the olfactory perception.
1994 Private Eye 8 Apr. 11/3 A ‘cascade of ordure’ has been falling on Anderson's head from outraged Radio 4 listeners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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