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feculent
[ fek-yuh-luhnt ]
adjective
- full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.
feculent
/ ˈfɛkjʊlənt /
adjective
- filthy, scummy, muddy, or foul
- of the nature of or containing waste matter
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Derived Forms
- ˈfeculence, noun
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Other Words From
- fecu·lence noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of feculent1
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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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