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feculent

[ fek-yuh-luhnt ]

adjective

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


feculent

/ ˈfɛkjʊlənt /

adjective

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


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfeculence, noun

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Other Words From

  • fecu·lence 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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Example Sentences

He who wishes to know what Night-Mare is, let him eat chestnuts before going to sleep, and drink after them feculent wine.

Sensibility is smothered in, the feculent steams of roast beef, and delicacy stained by the waste drippings of porter.

It hit him squarely in the face, and the feculent contents streamed down to his chin.

Flowers of a fœtid or feculent odor, hermaphrodite, in compound racemes.

In Algeria, a kind of kalo is cultivated under the name of chou caraibe, whose tubers are larger, but less feculent.

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