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ordure

Meaningrough, shaggy, wild, frightful

Common meaning: animal or human excrement

Journey through time

  1. Latinhorridus‘rough, shaggy, wild, frightful’source
  2. Old Frenchmeaning shiftsrough, shaggy, wild, frightful → dirtyord‘dirty’source
  3. Frenchordure‘ordure’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsdirty → animal or human excrementordure‘animal or human excrement’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin horridus ‘rough, shaggy, wild, frightful’.

Roots

  • horridus Latin “rough, shaggy, wild, frightful”

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