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latrinalia

noun

Etymology

From latrine + -alia. Coined by American folklorist Alan Dundes in 1996, displacing the earlier shithouse poetry.

Definitions

  1. Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.

    • It wasn't until I gave up, closed and stowed my notebook, and was sitting on a toilet seat reading latrinalia on the stall door that I recalled[…]

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