Dictionary

scatology en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”) + -ology.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.
2. (countable, uncountable) A filthy epithet.
   • […] 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 […] 2008, Daniel Bernardi, The Persistence of Whiteness:
3. (countable, uncountable) Interest in or obsession with faeces or other excrement.
   • 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. 2015, Henry Powell, Howard Kushner, “Mozart at play: The limitations of attributing etiology of genius to Tourette syndrome and mental illness”, in Eckart Altenmüller, Stanley Finger, François Boller, editors, Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience, page 290:
4. (countable, uncountable) Literature, humor, or pornography featuring excrement or excreting.
   • 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). 2010, Julie Cross, Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature, page 48:

Forms

Deriveds

bovine scatology · scatological

Relateds

scatophilia · scatolia · scatologia

Synonyms

coprophilia (interest in or obsession with faeces) · coprology (scientific study of faeces)

Translations (15)

fr scatologie (study or analysis of faeces) · it scatologia (study or analysis of faeces) · pl skatologia (study or analysis of faeces) · ca escatologia (study or analysis of faeces) · de Skatologie (study or analysis of faeces) · es coprología (study or analysis of faeces) · de Fäkalsprache (filthy epithet) · es escatología (study or analysis of faeces) · pl skatologia (filthy epithet) · pt escatologia (study or analysis of faeces) · ja スカトロジー (study or analysis of faeces) · sv skatologi (study or analysis of faeces) · pl koprologia (filthy epithet) · pl koprologia (study or analysis of faeces) · de Koprologie (study or analysis of faeces)