😎 Ordure Meaning - Ordure Defined - Ordure Examples - Ordure Definition - Ordure

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[00:00:00]Hi [sighs] there, students.

[00:00:03]ordure ordure This is a posh, formal word for excrement, for dung, for human waste.

[00:00:15]So, there was a smell of ordure in the air that made everyone sick.

[00:00:25]He stepped into a pile of ordure on the pavement.

[00:00:30]The city streets were lined with ordure, with rubbish, after the parade. So, ordure, specifically animal or human excrement, dung, or manure.

[00:00:45]Um, this is a formal or literary term, and it's sometimes used metaphorically to talk about something that is morally degrading, that's something that's disgusting.

[00:01:00]But, most commonly, it's it's talking about excrement.

[00:01:06]The streets were filthy with heaps of human and animal ordure steaming in the sun.

[00:01:14]Um, the reek of ordure made him want to vomit.

[00:01:21]So, ordure, it's a um, a posh word for Um, the reek of ordure was all all around us.

[00:01:33]Um, ordure is something that needs to be buried or treated.

[00:01:41]So, the And then, you could use it metaphorically, as well. That cinema adaptation is no more than a pretentious pile of ordure.

[00:01:54]Um, the alternative is trying to hide all this political ordure.

[00:02:02]Um, and I think we are much better bringing it out into the public and plea and cleaning it. So, something vile or repulsive, something rather disgusting, but most commonly dung. The medieval streets were perpetually filthy with heaps of human and animal ordure everywhere.

[00:02:26]The scientist examined the bear's ordure with a stick to see what the animal had been eating.

[00:02:34]People were once hired to manually remove buckets of ordure from the city's cesspit.

[00:02:42]The fly traveled from the ordure of the slum to the kitchen of the king carrying diseases with it on its feet.

[00:02:54]The critics were merciless throwing verbal ordure at the the director's latest film.

[00:03:02]Um, he considered the politician's speech to be nothing more than a self-important pile of ordure.

[00:03:14]The novel was criticized for wallowing in the ordure ordure of human nature rather than seeking ideal.

[00:03:25]After the scandal broke, the executive found his reputation covered in the ordure of public opinion.

[00:03:35]So, ordure, dung, excrement, uh, dirt, um, something moral morally offensive.

[00:03:45]The janitor had to clear up the ordure in the restroom.

[00:03:51]The farmer used the ordure from his animals as fertilizer.

[00:04:00]I accidentally stepped in a pile of ordure while hiking.

[00:04:06]>> [sighs] >> The public park was littered with ordure left by irresponsible pet owners.

[00:04:14]The dog's fur was matted with dried ordure.

[00:04:19]The beggar sat on the street corner surrounded by filth and ordure.

[00:04:26]He wore protective gloves while cleaning up the ordure from the crime scene.

[00:04:32]The gardener composted the organic ordure to um enrich the soil.

[00:04:40]Heavy rain washed away the ordure from the streets, and you should always wash your hand after um dealing with ordure.

[00:04:52]Um okay, this comes from uh Middle French ordure from Anglo-Norman ordure, um meaning filth, refuse, dung, excrement.

[00:05:07]Um I think that it it actually comes from um Latin horridus, dreadful, frightful, horrid, from horreo, to stand and shiver in fear.

[00:05:23]Um so, ordure, A for I got to give it a seven in formality, 7.5 in formality. Frequency.

[00:05:33]I think this is a low-frequency word.

[00:05:35]It's very formal.

[00:05:36]So, ordure.

[00:05:38]Bye for now.