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feculent

[ fek-yuh-luhnt ]

adjective

  1. full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.


feculent

/ ˈɛʊəԳ /

adjective

  1. filthy, scummy, muddy, or foul
  2. of the nature of or containing waste matter
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱ𳦳ܱԳ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ڱu·Գ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feculent1

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin faeculentus full of dregs. See feces, -ulent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feculent1

C15: from Latin faeculentus ; see faeces
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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

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Though its storage tanks are empty, the feculent odor of its cargo is unmistakable.

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The less time “feculent” poisons reside in our colons, the thinking went, the less we absorb into our blood, and the healthier we’ll be.

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Michael told the driver to stop for one moment, and he leaned forward over the apron of the cab to survey the cross-street of swarming feculent humanity that was presumably the entering highway.

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Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame.

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