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This week's themeDirty words This week's words coprolalia scoria scatology fimicolous feculent Another Word A Day the book  "Just the thing if romping with words is what you want to do." -Washington Post Buy 
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with Anu Gargscatology
PRONUNCIATION:
(skuh-TOL-uh-jee)
MEANING:
noun:1. The scientific study of excrement. 2. An obsession with excrement or excretion. 3. Language or literature dealing with excretory matters in a prurient or humorous manner. ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek skato-, combing form of skor (dung). Ultimately from the
Indo-European root sker- (excrement) that is also the source of dreck
and scoria.
USAGE:
"One fund will be left empty, while the second will contain a steaming pile
of what, at the risk of descending into scatology, can only be described
as two-year Greek government notes."Mark Gilbert; Hedge-Fund Guy Seduces Buffett to Safeguard Bonus; BusinessWeek (New York); Jan 14, 2010. See more usage examples of scatology in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em. -Red Skelton, comedian (1913-1997)
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