coprophagy

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Please forward all flames, complaints, whining, accusations about my mother, inferences of habouring an Oedipus complex, demands to engage in coprophagy before shuffling off this mortal coil, and anatomically impossible suggestions

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  1. The habit, found among insects, of customarily feeding upon excrement. It also occurs as a pathological condition in man.

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  • Please forward all flames, complaints, whining, accusations about my mother, inferences of habouring an Oedipus complex, demands to engage in coprophagy before shuffling off this mortal coil, and anatomically impossible suggestions —  The Hardball Times
  • Two decades of crapulence by the political class has been prologue to the era of coprophagy that is now upon us. —  Latest Articles
  • Love that he worked in the word coprophagy into ... —  Cootiehog
  • Please forward all flames, complaints, whining, accusations about my mother, inferences of habouring an Oedipus complex, demands to engage in coprophagy before shuffling off this mortal coil, and anatomically impossible suggestions here. —  The Hardball Times
  • 10 posted on 10 / 01 / 2008 4: 34: 04 AM PDT coprophagy —  Latest Articles
 

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  1. Greek κόπρος, excrement, + φαγεῖν, eat.
 

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