"ordurous" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1604, Michael Drayton, Moses his Birth and Miracles, Book 1, in The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, 1630, p. 137, The bondage and seruilitie that lay On buried Israel (sunke in ordurous slime)",
          "text": "His greeued spirit downe heauily doth way,"
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          "ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 137:",
          "text": "[…] the plump brown face had been deflated and patted flat like a cow’s ordurous dropping.",
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          "ref": "1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 100:",
          "text": "Whoopla laughter scuttling after him and a gold tooth winksome, bawdy dogstar in the ordurous jaws of fellatio major.",
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          "text": "1983, Bill Greenwell, limerick in E. O. Parrott (ed.) The Penguin Book of Limericks, 1984, p. 233,\nThe reason we’re asked to endure\nA gutter press, smutty, impure,\nIs that old river Fleet,\nWhose name’s on the street,\nIs an ordurous, underground sewer."
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        "Filthy; revolting."
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          "ref": "2012 April 18, Maya Angelou, The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Modern Library, →ISBN, page 126:",
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