Augean

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Augean \Au*ge"an\, a.
     1. (Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis,
        whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned
        for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
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     2. Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
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     {Augean stable} (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or
        filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Augean
       adj : extremely dirty and corrupt; "every government ought to
             attend to cleaning its own Augean stables"