What does scatology mean?
Scatology means The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces..
[…] 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).
Use scatology when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scatology means The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces..
Common synonyms include coprology, coprophilia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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 […]
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