Scatology

Definitions

1. The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.
   countable, uncountable
2. A filthy epithet.
   countable, uncountable
3. Interest in or obsession with faeces or other excrement.
   countable, uncountable
4. Literature, humor, or pornography featuring excrement or excreting.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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 […]”

“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.”

“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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