scatology

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scatology

Rhymes with -ɒlədʒi

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From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”) + -ology.

noun scatologies

countable, uncountable The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.
Similar: coprology
countable, uncountable A filthy epithet. […] 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 […]
countable, uncountable Interest in or obsession with faeces or other excrement. Like James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom in the novel Ulysses (1922), Mozart seemed utterly comfortable with himself, bodily functions, and all.[…] In our view Mozart’s so-called scatology is part of his culture and personality and, as we have argued, intimately connected with his creativity.
Similar: coprophilia
countable, uncountable Literature, humor, or pornography featuring excrement or excreting. The move to out-and-out scatology in humorous texts for junior readers takes off in the later 1990s, following the overt scatological humor of ground-breaking ‘bum and poo’ picture books for younger readers, such as Holzwarth’s The Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business (1998).

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noun study or analysis of faeces

Español	escatología, coprología
日本語	スカトロジー sukatorojī
Português	escatologia
Français	scatologie
Deutsch	Koprologie, Skatologie
Italiano	scatologia

noun filthy epithet

Deutsch	Fäkalsprache

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@misc{scatology_2026,
  title = {scatology},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scatology},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}