ordure
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In your future references to it, I think you should call it the New Ordure.
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Ordure: excrement; usually applied to such as is foul or offensive.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Ordure, or′dūr, n. dirt: dung: excrement: also fig. anything unclean.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various