scatology
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the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
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obscenity, especially words or humor referring to excrement.
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the study of fossil excrement.
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the scientific study of excrement, esp in medicine for diagnostic purposes, and in palaeontology of fossilized excrement
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obscenity or preoccupation with obscenity, esp in the form of references to excrement
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Scatology being the stock and trade of little boys' humor, the littlest grandsons strategically maneuvered a plastic dog dropping everywhere they thought the thing's disgusting appearance might provoke a rise, giggling as they schemed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scatology, skā-tol′ō-ji, n. the knowledge of fossil excrement or coprolites: knowledge of the usages of primitive peoples about excrements, human and other.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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