sordsn.
Obsolete or dialect.
Dirt, filth; filthiness.
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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
1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 61 There is nothing more delicate and abhorring all sinful sords, than the Ermine of Christian Religion.
1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 219 Their raggs, sords, and beggery, sufficiently confutes their rare skill.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Sords, filth; washings; off-scourings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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