Synonyms of ordure

ordure

noun

ˈȯr-jər 

as in dung

solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal

polite people do not discuss ordure in public

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dung
• soil
• dirt
• excrement
• excreta
• feces
• poop
• dropping
• slops
• muck
• scat
• doo-doo
• stool
• waste
• manure
• sewage
• dunghill
• guano
• midden
• sewerage
• night soil
• spoor
• coprolite

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ordure

On the face of it, packing the ordure of millions into open-air mounds is a terrible approach to a more livable planet, particularly in a part of the world where scavengers don’t comb through them for every salable scrap. — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022

My group first watched a video, which explained that the plant’s effluent would be released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a thirty-mile-long waterway built in the late nineteenth century to rid the city of its ordure. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022

Poking at the ordure with a stick, Cipollone pointed out the beech mast and berries on which the bear had fed. — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020

In gardens, the scent of frangipani carries on the damp breeze; in cities, that unmistakably Indian blend of ordure, asphalt and spice. — The Economist, 27 June 2019

Even a seemingly natural savannah, the African grasslands in the Mara-Serengeti, has benefited from the healing powers of animal ordure, produced by the livestock of human herders thousands of years ago. — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018

At the bottom of the tube sat a half-inch of what looked like frozen mud, but was, in fact, orca ordure. — Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017