ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery † ; garbage, carrion; excreta &c 299; slough, peccant
humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria † ; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap
[Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
dunghill, colluvies † , mixen † , midden, bog, laystall † , sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john,
head; cess † , cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer;
Cloacina; dust hole.
sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable † , sink of corruption; slum, rookery.
V. be unclean, become unclean &c adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink
&c 401; mold, molder; go bad &c adj.. render unclean &c adj.; dirt, dirty; daub, blot,
blur, smudge, smutch † , soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease † ;
dabble, drabble † , draggle, daggle † ; spatter, slubber; besmear &c, bemire, beslime † ,
begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain † , maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase,
contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt &c (injure) 659; cover with dust &c n.; drabble in the
mud † ; roil.
wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber † .
Adj. dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled &c v.; not to be handled with kid
gloves; dusty, snuffy † , smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].
slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.
[of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.
unscoured † , unswept † , unwiped † , unwashed, unstrained, unpurified † ; squalid; lutose † ,
slammocky † , slummocky † , sozzly † .
nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy † ; fetid &c 401.
[of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten,
mucid † , rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral † , lentiginous † , touched, fusty, effete,
reasty † , rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent,
putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous † ; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent;
stercoraceous † , excrementitious † ; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous † ; gory, bloody; rotting &c
v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.
crapulous &c (intemperate) 954 [Obs.]; gross &c (impure in mind) 961; fimetarious † ,
fimicolous † .
Phr. they that touch pitch will be defiled [Much Ado About Nothing].
654. Health -- N. health, sanity; soundness &c adj.; vigor; good health, perfect health,
excellent health, rude health, robust health; bloom.
mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.]; Hygeia † ; incorruption, incorruptibility; good state of
health, clean bill of health; eupepsia † ; euphoria, euphory † ; St.
Anthony's fire † .
V. be in health &c adj.. bloom, flourish.
keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health, enjoy a good state
of health; have a clean bill of health.
return to health; recover &c 660; get better &c (improve) 658; take a new lease of life,
fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure &c (restore) 660; tinker.
Adj. healthy, healthful; in health &c n.; well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole;
florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof.
unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed † , unmarred, untainted; sound of wind and limb, safe
and sound.