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prettygoodwordjumentous (djoo-MEN-tuhs) - adj., smelling strongly of a beast of burden, especially of horse.
Used almost exclusively (when it was used at all, mainly by medical types) of urine -- so smelling of horse piss. This is something associated with certain diseases, thus the medical angle. Coined around 1800 from Latin jumentum, yoke-beast, from jugum, a yoke -- and while this might be taken to encompass oxen, it turns out that Romans most often plowed with horses or donkeys. (In French, jument means a mare.) Feel free to mark this under the department of They Really Have A Word For That? and move on. (For the record, I've no idea where I came across this one.)
---L.
Used almost exclusively (when it was used at all, mainly by medical types) of urine -- so smelling of horse piss. This is something associated with certain diseases, thus the medical angle. Coined around 1800 from Latin jumentum, yoke-beast, from jugum, a yoke -- and while this might be taken to encompass oxen, it turns out that Romans most often plowed with horses or donkeys. (In French, jument means a mare.) Feel free to mark this under the department of They Really Have A Word For That? and move on. (For the record, I've no idea where I came across this one.)
---L.
