Scatology

Origin

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skōr, "excrement") + -ology.

Full definition of scatology

Noun

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

• scatologia

Derived terms

• scatological

Related terms

• scatolia
• scatophilia