night soil

See also: nightsoil and night-soil

English

Alternative forms

• night-soil
• nightsoil

Noun

night soil (uncountable)

1. (archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces.
   • 1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse‎^[1], →ISBN:

     There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.

   • 2006, Mario Giampietro et al., “Can Biofuels replace Fossil Energy Fuels?”, in International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, volume 1, number 1, page 58:

     The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.

   • 2017, Jennifer Taylor, Echoes of the Moon, →ISBN:

     Time for the local night soil man to appear. He left the inn to find the night man who serviced the place.

Translations

human faeces

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 夜香 (je⁶ hoeng¹), 夜來香／夜来香 (je⁶ loi⁴ hoeng¹)

  Mandarin: 糞便／粪便 (zh) (fènbiàn)

• Finnish: uloste (fi)
• Russian: ночно́е зо́лото n (nočnóje zóloto)