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scatological

adj

Etymology

From scatology + -ical. Compare eschatological.

Definitions

  1. Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological…

    Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces, or dung.

    • The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.

  2. Relating to scatology, the use of obscenities.

    • His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.

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Derived

scatologically

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scatological. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA