Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
2. Degree of Subservience

653. Uncleanness.

   NOUN:UNCLEANNESS &c. adj.; impurity; immundity [rare], immundicity [rare], mucidness, impurity &c. (of mind) [See Impurity].
  DEFILEMENT, contamination &c. v.; defœdation [obs.]; soilure, soiliness [obs.]; abomination; taint, tainture [obs.]; fetor [See Fetor].
  LOUSINESS, pediculosis, pediculation, phthiriasis [med.].
  DECAY; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold or mould, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor [rare], caries [med.], rubigo [obs.].
  SLOVENRY; slovenliness &c. adj.; squalor.
  DOWDY, drab, slut, malkin or mawkin [obs. or dial. Eng.], slattern, sloven, slammerkin [obs.], slammock or slummock [dial.], drabble-tail, draggle-tail, mud lark [slang], dustman, sweep; beast, pig.
  DIRT, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grime, raff [dial.], riffraff; sossle or sozzle [dial.].
  DREGS, sordes, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement; heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother [obs.], precipitate, scoriœ [L.], ashes, cinders, recrement, slag; scum, froth.
  USELESS REFUSE, hogwash [colloq.], swill, garbage, ditch water, dishwater, bilge-water; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings [See Inutility]; outscourings, offscourings, offscum; caput mortuum [L.], residuum, sprue, dross, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviæ; furfur, dandruff; tartar, fur.
  spawn, offal, gurry [U. S.]; carrion; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration.
  DUNG, ordure, lienteria; feces or fæces, excrement, feculence; excreta [See Excretion]; sewage, sewerage [rare in this sense]; fertilizer, muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
  [RECEPTACLES] dunghill, colluvies [med.]; mixen, midden [both archaic or dial. Eng.], bog, laystall [obs.]; cesspool; sump [Scot. & dial. Eng.], sough [dial. Eng.], cloaca, Cloaca Maxima; sink, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole; glory hole [colloq.].
  WATER-CLOSET, w. c., toilet [colloq.], cabinet d’aisances [F.], latrine, back-house, necessary, privy, jakes [rare], Mrs. Jones; head [naval slang].
  STY, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.
  MUD, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh [dial.], sposh [U. S.].
  VERMIN, louse, flea, nit, bug, chinch; lice [See Animal].
   VERB:BE or BECOME UNCLEAN &c. adj.; rot, putrefy, fester, rankle, reek; stink [See Fetor]; mold or mould, molder or moulder; go bad &c. adj.
  wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
  RENDER UNCLEAN &c. adj.; dirt, dirty; soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, smirch; begrease; drabble, dabble, daggle, spatter, slubber [dial.]; besmear &c., bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain [archaic], maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt (injure) [See Deterioration]; cover with dust &c. n.; drabble in the mud; roil.
   ADJECTIVE:UNCLEAN, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled &c. v.; not to be handled -without gloves, – with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U. S.].
  LOUSY, pedicular, pediculous.
  UNCLEANLY, slovenly, slatternly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, drabble-tailed; uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; squalid; lutose, slammocky or slummocky [dial.], sossly or sozzly [dial.], sloppy [colloq.].
  OFFENSIVE, nasty, coarse, foul, impure, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy [dial. Eng.]; fetid [See Fetor].
  moldy or mouldy, musty, fusty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, bad, gone bad, lentiginous or lentiginose, touched, reasty [dial. Eng.], rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic or saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as -a pear, – cheese.
  crapulous (intemperate) [See Intemperance]; beastlike; gross (impure in mind) [See Impurity]; fimetarious, fimicolous.
   INTERJECTION:pah! faugh! ugh!    QUOTATIONS:

1. They that touch pitch will be defiled.—Much Ado About Nothing
2. If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!—Lamb
3. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven’s porridge.—old proverb