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noun
1.
the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
2.
obscenity, especially words or humor referring to excrement.
3.
the study of fossil excrement.
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Scatological
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Example Sentences
- They are repositories of bad dreams, scatological pranks, memories of inquisition and ritual.
- Sometimes, one of them would make a scatological joke, and they'd share a little laugh.
- He is a hypocrisy-buster, a truth-teller, a scatological sage.
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Word Origin & History
scatology
"obscene literature," 1876, from Gk. skat-, stem of skor (gen. skatos) "excrement" (from PIE base *sker- "to defecate") + -logy "treatise, study."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
scatology sca·tol·o·gy (skā-tŏl'ə-jē, skə-)
n.
The study and analysis of feces for physiological and diagnostic purposes. Also called coprology.
An obsession with excrement or excretory functions.
The psychiatric study of such an obsession.
scat'o·log'i·cal (skāt'l-ŏj'ĭ-kəl) or scat'o·log'ic (-ĭk) adj.
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