manure · noun — animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
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manure is pronounced /məˈnjʊə/.
Etymology
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes.
noun
- Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.e.g.“1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future.
I hate manure!”
- Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.e.g.“vegetable manure [= green manure]”
- Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.e.g.““You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
“What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”” — 2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime, page 217:
verb
- To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).e.g.“The farmer manured his fallow field.”
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