scatological

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Greek, skat-, skOr=excrement. Later in Old English scearn =dung, and Latin muscerdae =mouse droppings

[edit] Adjective

scatological (comparative more scatological, superlative most scatological)

  1. (a formal word) related to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces or dung.
    • The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies, called scatology.
  2. an interest in obscenity or things considered obscene, particularly literature
    • His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.

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