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語源

From Middle French feculent, from Latin faeculentus, from faex.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/

形容詞

feculent (comparative more feculent, superlative most feculent)

1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities

   Synonyms: turbid, sullied, foul, filthy, fetid

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 84:

     At this time in history the streets of London were as foul, feculent and disease-ridden as a series of interconnected dunghills, twice as dangerous as a battlefield, and as infrequently maintained as the lower cells of an asylum dungeon.

参照

• “feculent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.