English

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...

Synonyms

• coprology
• scatologia

Derived terms

• scatological

Related terms

• scatolia
• scatophilia

See also

• coprophilia

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