FOUL, FOULNESS, FOUL-SMELLING
ADJECTIVES
► DICHTY dirty, foul → 1887 Sc.
► DUNGY despicable, contemptible, foul; base, worthless; vile, degrading → 1494
► FECULENT of the nature of faeces or dregs; abounding with sediment or impurities; laden or polluted with filth; foul, fetid → 1471
► FULSOME 1. physically disgusting; filthy, dirty, foul, loathsome → c1510
2. foul-smelling, rank; strong-smelling, pungent → 1576
► FUNKED having an offensive smell; foul-smelling → 1835
► FUNKED-OUT having an offensive smell; foul-smelling → 1893
► ILL-SCRAPED not scraped clean, foul → 1858 Sc.
► IMMUND unclean, impure; filthy, foul → 1621
► LAIDLY ugly, loathsome, foul; clumsy → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LEPROUS foul, filthy → 1598
► LIDLY ugly, loathsome, foul; clumsy → 1790 Sc.
► MURRAIN disagreeable, foul, contemptible → 1575 obs.
► NESTIE ‘nasty’, foul, filthy, offensive → c1700 Sc.
► ON THE BUGLE foul-smelling → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► ON THE NOSE foul-smelling → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► PUTID morally or intellectually corrupt or worthless; base, foul, loathsome → 1580
► RANK corrupt, foul; festering → 1579
► REASTY rusty; discoloured; foul → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SOWLY adj. dirty, foul, unclean → 1300 obs.
► SPURCITIOUS filthy, foul, obscene → 1628 obs.
► TURPITUDINOUS characterized by turpitude or depravity; shameful, foul, wicked → 1814
► UNCLEAN of air or smells: foul or impure → c1400 obs.
NOUNS
► BAGGAGE corrupt or foul matter → 17C Sc.
► DUNGHILL a collection of worthless, foul, or contemptible things → 1340
► FECULENCE foulness, filth → 1860
► FECULENCY foulness, filth → 1651 obs.
► FEDITIES foul or disgusting practices → 1539 obs.
► FEDITY foulness, filthiness, nastiness, vileness, loathsomeness, whether moral or physical → 1542 obs.
► FULSOMENESS a being offensive or disgusting to the senses; foulness, disgustingness → 1563 obs.
► LEPROSY foulness, filth → 1598
► LEPRY foulness, filth → 1526 obs.
► NAST dirt, filth, foulness → 1789 Eng. dial.
► TURPITUDE foulness, offensiveness, unsightliness → 1684 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► SLUBBERDEGULLION a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch → a1616
VERBS
(also see BEFOUL)
► BESMOTTER to smear or daub with mud or dirt; bespatter, to foul → 1715 Eng. dial.
► BLATHER ► BLUTHER to make untidy or foul → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAAR to stink, to smell foul → 1980s S. Afr. sl.
► POLLUTE to make physically impure, foul, or filthy; to dirty, to stain, to taint → 1548
► SCUMBER to void ordure; also, to produce something foul; to foul with dirty liquid; to daub with soft dirt → 1596 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SORDIDATE vb. to make foul, sluttish, or filthy → 1623 obs.
► SOSS vb. to make foul or dirty → 1557 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SOWL vb. to make foul or dirty; to soil → 1440 obs.
► TURPIFY a1586 rare – to make foul or filthy; to befoul, to besmirch