Specific Excrement

ruzuzu Fecal odorgrams: http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2013/04/26/friday-weird-science-stop-and-smell-the-st/

(Note the bit about the bear doing its part for science.) Apr 28, 2013

ruzuzu Um... I'll just leave this here for you.*

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=toilet-tissue-anthropologists-uncover-all-the-ways-weve-wiped

*Note to yarb: It mentions Rabelais. Mar 8, 2013

deinonychus Maybe you can find some good words in this article about human dung being the most attractive (for dung beetles, that is). Mar 3, 2013

chained_bear This is also pretty fun. Feb 5, 2013

ruzuzu You should mine this for comedy gold: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-bug-golden-egg.html Feb 3, 2013

chained_bear Eew! Added.
Jan 30, 2013

bilby keriorrhea. And dejection, now that I'm here. Jan 29, 2013

ruzuzu It's a former holding of the True Blue Ruzuzu Company. There was a hostile takeover, it got sold dirt cheap, and everybody lost their assets. Jan 20, 2013

deinonychus Speaking of Australia... This article is about "earrings made out of koala feces sold by the True Blue Roo Poo Company, an Australian business that specializes in making products out of animal poop." But I can't find their web page, so maybe they are out of business? (But I don't see how that could be possible.) Jan 20, 2013

bilby diarrhea, or diarrhoea if you graduated from Australian spelling bees. If you want more specific there's diarrhoea crapulosa. No I didn't make that up. Jan 16, 2013

chained_bear Ain't that the truth.
Jan 16, 2013

deinonychus Ooh, you listed rectally applied yoghurt as well! That one sort of got stuck in my mind...

I'm glad this list exists, it's not easy to find a place where an article like that will be properly appreciated! Jan 15, 2013

chained_bear deinonychus, I am so grateful to you for sharing that information. This list is *exactly* the place for sharing that sort of thing, and I'm moved (ahem) that you did so.

I thought your link might be to this article, but I was (delightfully) wrong! Yet another article on the phenomenon! Poo-nomenon! Thank you for enriching our lives. :) Jan 15, 2013

deinonychus Not sure if they make the list, but this article about faecal transplants is full of stuff like RePOOPulate, stool substitute and pseudo-poo... And for some reason I felt that I had to share that with someone. Jan 12, 2013

bilby purging Jan 3, 2013

bilby It's a bit tenuous, but there's nothing like this list as a venue for enlightened debate. butterfly Apr 26, 2012

ruzuzu (See the soylent brown link over on bilby.) Jun 20, 2011

ruzuzu Would this count?
scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
Jun 17, 2011

Prolagus cowpat? May 13, 2011

Wordplayer Hahaha...cow-shard! Mar 29, 2011

chained_bear ruzuzu, that's disgusting. Added. :) Mar 23, 2011

sionnach No thanks, chum. I'm allergic to shellfish. Mar 23, 2011

ruzuzu How about lobster-chum? Mar 23, 2011

reesetee It appears we may have a new kind of specific excrement soon. Oct 28, 2010

marky lolz Oct 23, 2010

bilby Flying toilet. Oct 23, 2010

ruzuzu See drek. Sep 14, 2010

hernesheir Ahem, *droppings* - not specific unless dealing with those of the tree shrew: "A 2009 study found that mature N(epenthes) lowii plants derived 57–100% of their foliar nitrogen from tree shrew droppings." - statement in the "Loss of carnivory" section of the Wikipedia discussion on protocarnivorous plants. Aug 18, 2010

ruzuzu Oh. Hey dontcry - check out dookie. (I've also heard it as doogie, dog doodie, and doggy doo doo.) Aug 17, 2010

ruzuzu Freud would probably have something to say about the stage where we think about specific excrement.... Aug 17, 2010

reesetee I can tell you one thing: It is one of the Several Stages. Aug 17, 2010

ruzuzu Allow me to bemoan my fate for a moment... just now I was reading through these to look for words specific to cattle and actually considering whether there are enough to make an even more specific list (sharn, wax, cowflop, cowflap, cowpat, Lord help me).

Is this one of the several stages?

Edit: And if I ever did make such a list, would you consider co-hosting it? :-) Aug 17, 2010

bilby cecotrope Nov 24, 2009

whichbe I'm not sure which poo lists these belong on, but here's some poo words: immerd, imbulbiate, conskite, spatilomancy, merdivorous, coprophagous, dejecta, casson, ornithocoprous Nov 20, 2009

dontcry I remember when we moved to Oklahoma when I was in 5th grade, our neighbor referred to her dog's poo as "duke." She called it "dog duke." I had never heard that expression before -- or since. Nov 20, 2009

sionnach Though I know that the ursine queen herself has questioned the relevance of this list for such topics as dags and dingleberries, I still don't know of any better place to share the discovery I made yesterday (on page 209 of Bill Bryson's "Made in America"), that the Pennsylvania Dutch word for "the globules of dung found on hair in the vicinity of the anus" is aarschgnoddle. What a perfect word! Nov 20, 2009

madmouth mixen, I think Aug 7, 2009

madmouth dejecta is a curiosity I tumbled across (figuratively! figuratively!) on the WWftD dictionary Jun 22, 2009

chained_bear I'm not adding anything that makes me vomit. Dec 5, 2008

bilby fizzy gravy. Dec 5, 2008

bilby biosolid! Nov 26, 2008

bilby imbulbiate. Nov 12, 2008

chained_bear Enjoy the guilt, pal. It's like earworms. Oct 15, 2008

bilby *wails* I don't do excrement lists. You do excrement lists. You preside over an international network of excrement emporia. I couldn't be trusted with the exquisite urinary franchise ... the responsibility! Oct 15, 2008

chained_bear Coprolite does refer to origin. When it's found, and therefore named, it's ancient. Its age is part of its origins. It describes (as my list description above states) poo *very specifically*.

"Lotium" does not describe poo very specifically.

And of course, anyone here who objects to my criteria for inclusion is more than welcome to make their own lists of specific piss.

Edit: HERE is an open list for all you pissabeds to play with. Have fun.

*delirious with freedom from guilt*
Oct 15, 2008

bilby Well coprolite for example refers to form, not origin. Lotium is specific as you note in terms of its purpose ... surely this is one of the nowadays neglected glories of excrement?

I am glad you will spend the rest of the day in wee ponder. Oct 15, 2008

chained_bear I'm adding it, but I don't like it. It's just wee! How is that specific? It's a specific tonic, or lotion, but the wee itself doesn't have a specific origin. *sigh* I guess I just don't care anymore.

At least my stylist doesn't use this.

That I know of.

Edit: Your suggestion led me to sionnach's list, which (though mostly nasty) also listed Premarin, which, though a Trade Name (and I have a list for those) is also delightfully specific. And just when I was about to add it, I noticed my own list description, which lists only poo and not wee. Sadly, I do not have a list on which Premarin fits. In which case lotium ought to go as well.

I will spend the rest of the day pondering on this and feeling guilty. Oct 15, 2008

bilby lotium. Oct 15, 2008

bilby Hang on, I think I backed a winner with meconium. Yay! *whirls jacket around head and goes for a tumbril ride* Oct 10, 2008

reesetee A boy can dream. . . . Sep 23, 2008

bilby I don't think I'll ever get a suggestion on this list but I'm not giving up hope. Sewage. Sep 23, 2008

bilby Snot. Sep 11, 2008

reesetee And let's hope it's the last. Jan 15, 2008

skipvia Probably the first time I have seen meconium and "deliciously" in the same sentence. Jan 15, 2008

bilby Meconium is deliciously specific :-) Dec 12, 2007

sionnach I imagine khepri as the kheper of this list. Dec 6, 2007

chained_bear Thanks bilby. I thought about adding dingleberry and dag, but just can't see my way clear. They're not specific poo so much as poo stuck to fur or, more usually, wool. In that sense they're specific as to location upon an animal, but not as to the type of animal or poo itself. In other words... not specific enough.

That said... I had no idea about the word clegnut. I did not find it in the OED! Also found out that dag has about seventeen meanings, some of them verbs. Bizarre. Nov 21, 2007

bilby There are a few words which relate to a piece of poo stuck to an animal's backside ... isn't fur a wonderful thing? Dingleberry comes to mind. Clegnut, possibly with double 'g'. And there's a more formal kind of term which escapes me right now.
Nov 21, 2007

reesetee And we owe it all to you. :-D Oct 25, 2007

chained_bear If there is one, though, at least we have a list we can add it to. Thank heaven that work has been done. Oct 25, 2007

arby I would agree with you there c_b - batshit and apeshit are used as adjectives (I think that's the right POS) describing people's states of mind, not nouns for the shit of the actual animal in question. Batshit would be guano, not sure if there's a specific term for ape shit. Oct 25, 2007

chained_bear I am beginning to wonder if, despite the slanginess of them, batshit and apeshit belong here.

I'm thinking no, because despite what you *think* when breaking down those compound words, as slang terms they, like "suck," don't really refer to the physical objects that the separate component words normally denote.

So... no.

I'm glad I answered my own question so publicly. Oct 25, 2007

reesetee I think it's time I bow out now.

Eesh. *mutters while walking away* Oct 24, 2007

chained_bear Oh, depending on the type of excrement, I guess I'd burnish it myself. If I have, you know, those long rubber gloves that go up to your shoulders, that veterinarians use to reach into... Well. I'd burnish my own tiara. I'm no elitist.

In other news, I'm putting out an APB now for a word that means, specifically, bear poo. Or even chained bear poo. (Sionnach, that's your cue to come up with some brilliant creation, e.g. cephalopygian. :) ) But NOT chained_bear poo. That's just gross. Oct 24, 2007

skipvia But...who would you get to burnish it? Oct 24, 2007

sionnach c_b: Paradoxically, I've heard that storing one's tiara in a jar of suitably chosen animal excrement is an excellent way of keeping it free of unsightly blemishes, and allows it to be burnished to a warm glowing sheen*.

*: more likely to be Martin than Charlie, at a guess.

</ totally frivolous comment> Oct 24, 2007

chained_bear Thanks! *adjusts tiara* I consider it honor aplenty that this comments list is SO LONG. People must really be interested in poo!

Also, I noticed that "fiants" is already on my list, and the OED has defined that as "the dung of certain animals, e.g. badger, etc." But I added the spellings of "feance" and "fuants" as well, with "see also" notes on those pages. Hey, it's only fair. If you're looking for just the right word to describe, say, badger dung, you ought to be given options for how to spell it. Oct 24, 2007

reesetee Oh, by the way--you come up 4th on the Google search for "animal excrement words." Be proud. Oct 23, 2007

reesetee No. No I can't verify them. Unless, of course, you pay me.

Oh, all right. I don't feel up to eating a cookie right now anyway. I believe buttons, crotiles, crotisings, and lesses are collective nouns, so it's probably not "proper" to singularize them. And according to OED, fuants was once spelled "feance," so all bets are off on that one.

Now if you'll excuse me, I feel the need for a shower. Oct 23, 2007

chained_bear Eeyew. So where did you find... oh. Nevermind.

Actually, can you verify that the ones with S's are actually spelled that way in the singular? I'll add them. Oct 23, 2007

reesetee Okay, I have more, but only if you don't ask where I found them (it's too embarrassing): buttons (sheep dung), crotiles or crotisings (hare droppings), lesses (boar, bear, or wolf doo-doo), billitting (fox drops), and last but most assuredly not least, fuants (any vermin excrement).

You're welcome. Enjoy your lunch. Oct 23, 2007

reesetee Hey! Watch the hair! :-P Oct 16, 2007

chained_bear Aah, don't frass yourself, reesetee. *gives noogie* We buds. Oct 16, 2007

reesetee Gosh, c_b, I just don't know what to say. *tears of gratitude* I'm just happy you feel better. That's what's important, after all. A person has to feel good about specific excrement. Oct 16, 2007

chained_bear I feel better about that now. I thought you should know. And just to show there are no hard feelings, I'm adding crappucino too. Oct 16, 2007

reesetee Okay--crappé? But scumber is added with resentment?? Oct 15, 2007

chained_bear Yeah. I know. Oct 4, 2007

reesetee I don't know how I feel about you not knowing how you feel about dung. Oct 4, 2007

chained_bear I added it, but I'm resentful about it. It isn't a specific type of poo, it's just dung... I don't know how I feel about that. Oct 4, 2007

reesetee At the risk of starting a fracas, I have another word for this stercoraceous list: scumber (dogs and foxes). Jennarenn, maybe you can use this one in class too? ;-) Oct 3, 2007

reesetee I drink coffee, and plenty of it. But no Kopi Luwak for me, thankyouverymuch. Mar 4, 2007

chained_bear That is truly disgusting. I did know about this phenomenon, I think, but I didn't know it was palm civets. I would have guessed pigs or something. How vile. I'm so glad I don't drink coffee...

p.s. uselessness, I didn't think you were *really* peevish. Figured you were having a bad day. :) Mar 4, 2007

reesetee Here's an interesting bit that's apropos here. There's a type of coffee, Kopi Luwak from Indonesia, that sells for about $160/lb. Why? It's made from coffee cherries that have been eaten by palm civets, which use their sharp sense of smell to select the choicest and ripest beans. They eat the beans, and during digestion, the flesh is removed from the berry, leaving only the bean. These...er, pooped-out beans...are hand collected from the floor of the jungle (not by the civets).

The bad news? I can't find a specific word for the palm civet poo. The good news is that this is Wordie--and we can make up words. I vote crappuccino.
Feb 28, 2007

uselessness Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to come across peevishly. Sometimes that happens. And I can't get into M-W either, I was just noting that a definition exists there. :-) Congratulations on finding a good definition though, it works for me. Feb 28, 2007

chained_bear Well, it's a very specific kind of excrement, so I think it counts. Thanks, trivet! Feb 28, 2007

trivet How about coprolite? Or are fossils out? Feb 28, 2007

chained_bear u, I'm surprised at your peevish tone. You didn't even pick on me for listing frink! chained_bear sad. chained_bear can't talk properly with tongue stuck in cheek.

I can't get into M-W for that word. Mind posting the definition on the word page for me? Nudge nudge wink wink? Feb 28, 2007

uselessness First. Maybe you haven't noticed, but I think by now I've broken every single one of my stupid rules. I was actually going to delete that list but there are too many good comments on it.

Second. I don't have a problem with made up words -- I think that's part of the fun of the site.

Third. Apparently, there are real words that have been overlooked by the OED. For example, the suggestion bodewash for this list appears in Merriam-Webster. But not OED. I think it ought to count. But that's just me. Feb 27, 2007

chained_bear Well, sure, I guess so. But it flies in the face of your unofficial rules, doesn't it? To make up words and insert definitions? I mean, like, people would just make up words then, like frink or something...

I really really hate finding a new cool word on Wordie, and clicking on all the links, and not finding a definition. The OED isn't one of those links, but so far it has included far more of those words (the ones with mostly non-useful links) than any other dictionary, so... I kind of like it. Plus it offers usage notes, which are sometimes priceless.

But wait... you were kidding! ... Weren't you? ... *crickets* Feb 27, 2007

uselessness It may be time to dethrone the OED from its place as official English canon. It's preventing too many great words from making this list! :-) A little Googling is all the verification I need, as it proves a word is "in use" by multiple people. Isn't that all it takes for a word to be considered real? Feb 27, 2007

chained_bear Could not find bodewash, sorry! Added wormcast, though OED gives it a hyphen. Stupid OED... And as for tath, it has several meanings. Cool. Thanks. I think. Feb 27, 2007

reesetee Bodewash = cow dung. And don't forget wormcast, which is exactly what it sounds like. And tath, which is cattle droppings.

Don't ask me the difference between cattle and cow dung. Just don't.
Feb 27, 2007

reesetee Trivet, that's not only amazing--it's rather alarming. ;-) Feb 27, 2007

reesetee They almost *have* to be cute, don't you think? To make up for their...disgustingness. Feb 27, 2007

uselessness Dangit, those notes never work! Just call me Mr. Short Term Memory. Crap crap crap.

Although I must say, these words are exponentially less intimidating than I thought they would be. Some are even downright cute. Feb 27, 2007

trivet I first came across fewmets and probably mutes when my father read me The Sword in the Stone. King Pellinore had a box of the Questing Beast's fewmets that he would show to anyone he managed to corner. I'm amazed that this information has stuck with me lo these many years. Feb 27, 2007

reesetee Oh, crap. You did it. You actually made this list. Look away, uselessness! Feb 27, 2007

chained_bear OED lists "fiants" as "The dung of certain animals, e.g. the badger, fox, etc." My first thought is to argue that it's not specific enough for the Specific Excrement list. My second thought is, how stupid is that first thought?

u, I wasn't able to find friants, werderobe, or waggying in the OED. I tried some different spellings but wasn't very thorough. Thanks for the suggestions!

Also, I think you forgot your Note to Self ;) Feb 27, 2007

sionnach fiants from a badger? Feb 27, 2007

sionnach I think I've seen fewmets in Mrs Byrne's dictionary at some point Feb 27, 2007

uselessness Interesting (disgusting) list. Might I suggest crotels from a hare; friants from a boar; werderobe from a badger; and waggying from a fox? I got these from a Google search and can't verify their authenticity... but still. Feb 27, 2007

chained_bear I couldn't find fewmets as an entry in the OED, but I tried "fumet" and it came up feces of deer (rarely singular). Interestingly, in the usage notes, it's nearly always spelled "fewmets."

Mutess (it's listed with two s's) is a verb: to discharge feces, as a hawk. Mutessing, the OED says, is the participle but also the noun.

Thanks for these wildly archaic terms! Feb 27, 2007

trivet fewmets, mutes? Feb 27, 2007