Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of fecal excrement, as in medicine, paleontology, or biology.
- noun Obscene language or literature, especially that dealing pruriently or humorously with excrement and excretory functions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of fossil excrement; the knowledge of animals which may be acquired by the examination of coprolites.
- noun Study of the feces in relation to normal and pathological composition and the diagnostic importance of the latter.
- noun The study of the use (or examination) of excrements in religious rites, witchcraft, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
scientific study , or thechemical analysis offaeces . - noun A
filthy epithet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)
- noun (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The doctor of scatology is flinging irrelevant sh!
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The bovine scatology from the dems on lowering deficit, saving medicare, and lowering health care costs would make a blowfly wince.
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February 19th, 2010 at 7: 16 pm just the bleepn facts says: dorkkkunt has a phd in scatology … Zzzzz …
Think Progress » Profit-Seeking Palin Reportedly Rips CPAC As A Profiteering Convention 2010
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The meaning of the text is that the child has some sort of bizarre disorder, perhaps an inordinate interest in scatology.
Intention: What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It? Richard Nokes 2005
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The meaning of the text is that the child has some sort of bizarre disorder, perhaps an inordinate interest in scatology.
Archive 2005-11-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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Edit otoh, mayb he just innately realizes that the study of ID is best defined as scatology?
Propaganda of the Day from the Discovery [sic] Institute - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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As with all Aristophanic plays, 'Peace' involves much innuendo, scatology and obscenity, and indeed the play opens with two slaves onstage, working dung into 'cakes' in a mixing bowl.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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KayinMaine-we both have doctorate degrees. in what? scatology?
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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That's guro as in ero guro, which refers to a type of work that features a reliance on shocking, gruesome and often disturbing displays of sex, violence and general scatology.
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I found your story "Break the Vessel" unique in its combination of a scatology theme and a traditional fantasy setting.
An Interview with Vylar Kaftan marshallpayne1 2009
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