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Meaning of stercoraceous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
/ˌstɜː.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

Definitions

Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.

Examples

“He had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling.”
“I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.”
“[W]e find it hard today to see the entertaining aspects of, for instance, stercoraceous jokes.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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