Definitions for Augean

Augean Au·ge·an

Spelling: [aw-jee-uh n]
IPA: /ɔˈdʒi ən/

Augean is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in Augean (aaegnu).

Definitions for Augean

adjective

  1. resembling the Augean stables in filthiness or degradation.
  2. difficult and unpleasant:

Origin of Augean

1590-1600; Latin Augē(us) of Augeas (Greek Augeí(ās) + -us adj. suffix) + -an

Examples for Augean

As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt.

It was the river Alpheus that Hercules turned through the Augean stables.

He has done much to cleanse the Augean stables of the English theatre.

I had to chase the chickens back into the coop and close the door so I could finish with the Augean Stables of the chicken pen.

Not that he abandoned his determination to cleanse his Augean stables.

Cleaning the Augean stables was something of the same sort of a job.

The Bush White House staff has begun the Augean task of spinning the Bush legacy.

But the task is vast, it is herculean, like unto the cleaning of the Augean stables.

It is an Augean stable we have to clean, but Hercules was one, and we are many.

Augean stables are not to be cleansed with a spray of rose-water.

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