coprophagic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

copro- +‎ -phagic

Adjective[edit]

coprophagic (comparative more coprophagic, superlative most coprophagic)

  1. Engaging in coprophagia.
    • 1944, George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali[1]:
      In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, ‘the drawers bespattered with excrement were painted with such minute and realistic complacency that the whole little Surrealist group was anguished by the question: Is he coprophagic or not?’

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