feculent

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feculent

  • /ˈfɛkjʊlənt/ UK

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

adjective more feculent · most feculent · faeculent · fæculent

  1. Dirty with faeces or other impurities 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.

    Similar: turbid, sullied, foul, filthy, fetid

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adj feculent

Deutschfäkulent, kotartig, kotig, verkotet, verschmutzt

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@misc{feculent_2026,
  title = {feculent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/feculent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}