Meaning of Manure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
3. Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
   countable, euphemistic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future. I hate manure!”

“1988, Dave Mustaine, "Hook in Mouth", Megadeth, So Far, So Good... So What!. M, they will cover your grave with manure”

“[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.”

“vegetable manure [⁠= green manure⁠]”

“livestock manures”

“Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.”

“The roots of plants, disengaged from the soil in the process of tilling and cleaning it, are also employed as a vegetable manure. Some of these, however, as the couch grass, being very vivacious, would readily spring again: and therefore it is necessary that their vegetative powers be destroyed, which may be done by mixing them with lime, and forming in this way a compost. Many farmers, however, to save time, or to prevent the risk of the plants springing again, burn them in little heaps upon the ground at the time of their being collected, and spread the ashes upon the surface. This may be sometimes convenient, but the effect is, that the principal nutritive part of the plant is dissipated, and nothing left but the carbonaceous, earthy, and other insoluble matter. —Low's Elements of Practical Agriculture.”

““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.””

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