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coprophagic en · ADJ

Etymology

From copro- + -phagic.

Meanings

  1. Engaging in coprophagia.
    • In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, ‘the drawers bespattered with excrement were painted with such minute and realistic complacency that the whole little Surrealist group was anguished by the question: Is he coprophagic or not?’ 1944, George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali:

Forms

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most coprophagic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more coprophagic Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

stercophagic · stercophagous