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merdurinous

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Consisting of excrement and urine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, rare

Examples

  • 163?, John Taylor, A Bawd These are the right paternes of an industrious Bawd, for shee pickes her living out of the laystall or dunghil of our vices ; if she thrive and grow fat, it is with the Merdurinous draffe of our imperfections [...]
  • 16??, Ben Jonson, Epigrams Of all your Night-tubs, when the Carts do cluster, Who shall discharge first his merdurinous Load [...]

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