Definitions for ordures

ordures or·dure

Spelling: [awr-jer, ‐dyoo r]
IPA: /ˈɔr dʒər, ‐dyʊər/

Ordures is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in ordures (deorrsu).

Definitions for ordures

noun

  1. dung; manure; excrement.

Origin of ordures

1300-50; Middle English Old French, equivalent to ord filthy (Latin horridus horrid) + -ure -ure

Examples for ordures

The students laugh at him and make him tipsy; the street boys pelt him with ordure; the better cafes turn him from their doors.

The nobility had died, the aristocracy had marched to imbecility or ordure!

The Anthidia have shown us how, in their cotton-wool wallets, they manufacture a sort of jewellery with their ordure.

Both strayed off upon the180 plain to gather the taquia, or ordure of the cattle, though no cattle were in sight.

But I have certain sensitive places in my soul: I do not like that word "ordure."

Mr. Vincent tells me that they have a horror of cattle, and will not touch the ordure, or other products of the cow.

Unionism and order: Separatism and ordure—that is about the sum.

Under its thick mantle of ordure the grub of the Lily-beetle escapes the troubles so fatal to its cousin of the asparagus.

ordure palpable and abominable was plentiful, and the swollen carcasses of small animals exhaled their biting wafts.

Fox was at various times thrust into dungeons filled ankle-deep with ordure, and was shot at, beaten with stones and clubs, etc.

Word Value for ordures
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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