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)
- (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.
- an interest in obscenity or things considered obscene, particularly literature
- His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.
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[edit] Translations
- Dutch: scatologisch
- French: scatologique
