scatology

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 Related terms 1.2.4 See also

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ ‘excrement’ + -ology.

[edit] Noun

scatology (plural scatologies)

1. The scientific study, or the chemical analysis of faeces.
2. A filthy epithet.
   • 2008, Daniel Bernardi, The Persistence of Whiteness

     ...lingo of the streets with its spewed out scatologies and its anti-womanist rhetoric of "hoes and bitches" — all so evocative of life in the ghetto...

[edit] Synonyms

• scatologia

[edit] Derived terms

• scatological

[edit] Related terms

• scatolia
• scatophilia

[edit] See also

• coprophilia