sterquilinous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sterquilinium (“a dung pit”), from stercus (“dung”), + -ous.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sterquilinous (comparative more sterquilinous, superlative most sterquilinous)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a dunghill
- mean; dirty; paltry.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. D. Featly”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- every tressis agaso, any sterquilinous Rascal, is licens'd to throw dirt in the faces of Sovereign Princes in open printed language
References edit
“sterquilinous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.