night soil
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See also: nightsoil and night-soil
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces.
- 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.