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scatophiliac en · NOUN

Etymology

From scato- + -philiac.

Meanings

1. (rare) One who exhibits scatophilia.
   • Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces. 1973, Anthony Burgess, Obscenity and the Arts:
   • Like the exhibitionist, the scatophiliac wants his victim, the person on the other end of the phone line, to be shocked, disgusted, or horrified by his demeanor or words. 2008, Stephen T. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior, page 82:
   • Joseph Mallard Turner had a profound, if scatophiliac, attraction to fire at sea. 1985, Michael Tobias, After Eden: History, Ecology, and Conscience, page 236:

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Synonyms

scatophile