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单词 feculent
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Definition of feculent in English:

feculent

adjective ˈfɛkjʊl(ə)ntˈfɛkjələnt
  • Of or containing dirt, sediment, or waste matter.

    their feet were forever slipping on feculent bog
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That helped explain why the river was so murky and why all the crossings were feculent quagmires of cow dung and mud, stirred up by scores of hooves and further churned by trucks, whose tracks laced the riverbanks for miles above and below me.
    • Secondly the food isn't quite up to scratch - the fried eggs paddle in grease rather than swim, the large sausage is spiced more than usual to disguise the origins of the feculent beast rind, and the bacon is undercooked.
    • A 26-year-old female presented with a 2-week history of fever, left lower abdominal pain and feculent drainage from the umbilicus.
    Synonyms
    dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, fouled, foul, impure, adulterated, tainted, tarnished, stained, soiled, begrimed, smeared, unwashed

Derivatives

  • feculence

  • noun ˈfɛkjʊl(ə)nsˈfɛkjələns
    • This piece of journalistic feculence even has a column listing fascinating facts about ice cream.

Origin

Late 15th century: from French féculent or Latin faeculentus, from faex, faec- 'dregs'.

 
 

Definition of feculent in US English:

feculent

adjectiveˈfɛkjələntˈfekyələnt
  • Of or containing dirt, sediment, or waste matter.

    their feet were forever slipping on feculent bog
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Secondly the food isn't quite up to scratch - the fried eggs paddle in grease rather than swim, the large sausage is spiced more than usual to disguise the origins of the feculent beast rind, and the bacon is undercooked.
    • A 26-year-old female presented with a 2-week history of fever, left lower abdominal pain and feculent drainage from the umbilicus.
    • That helped explain why the river was so murky and why all the crossings were feculent quagmires of cow dung and mud, stirred up by scores of hooves and further churned by trucks, whose tracks laced the riverbanks for miles above and below me.
    Synonyms
    dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, fouled, foul, impure, adulterated, tainted, tarnished, stained, soiled, begrimed, smeared, unwashed

Origin

Late 15th century: from French féculent or Latin faeculentus, from faex, faec- ‘dregs’.

 
 
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