Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Waste material, especially fecal matter, that is expelled from the body after digestion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any matter eliminated as useless from the living body; specifically, the feces.
- n. Anything growing naturally on the living body, as hair, nails, feathers, etc.; an outgrowth or natural excrescence.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
- n. now specifically Animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
- n. obsolete Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
- n. obsolete An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
Etymologies
- From Latin excrēmentum, from excrēscere ("to grow out"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin excrēmentum, from excernere, excrē-, to excrete; see excrete. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“V. i.110 (429,6) [dally with my excrement] The authour has before called the beard _valour's excrement_ in the Merchant of Venice.”
“Even what we call excrement still stores up the stuff of our lives.”
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
“While there have been many distinguished American winners, including Tom Wolfe and John Updike, bad sex veterans reserve a special place in their hearts for Norman Mailer, who won posthumously in 2007 for a passage in which the word "excrement" is used so alarmingly that it threatens to put a reader off sex for good.”
“The investigation followed persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the cholera epidemic.”
The Wall Street Journal: Haiti Scrambles to Secure Clean Water
“I wonder what those passages can have been like; the residue is replete with an obsessive interest in excrement, disease, sexual mania, and insectlike reproduction, insofar as these apply to Muslims in general and to Muslim immigrants in Europe in particular.”
“As his ideal being he chooses the horse, an animal whose excrement is not offensive.”
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels
“ Dali adds firmly that he is not, and that he regards this aberration as repulsive, but it seems to be only at that point that his interest in excrement stops.”
“Scat is simply what wildlife watchers call the excrement or feces of an animal.”
“Did you know that a year’s worth of human excrement is equivalent to 2.1 gallons of diesel?”
“The Beef: In a now infamous July incident, the band walked off the stage three songs into their Verizon Ampitheatre set after dive-bombing pigeons drenched them in excrement.”
The Washington Post: Riffs: Kings of Leon vs. The World: Their biggest beefs, brawls and blow-ups
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘excrement’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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Go to work on an egg
Words which - with a modicum of tolerance in pronunciation - sound like ways of cooking eggs.
exacerbate, exculpate, exclamatory, exhume, expansion, expeditious, explicit, expostulate, expunge, extortionate, extravaganza, exultant and 31 more...
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Everything Comes Down to Poo
poop, poo, feces, excrement, shit, crap, dung, droppings, guano, manure, waste, stool and 6 more...
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sewerly words
words that have to do with the sewers and the stuff that goes into them can be as gross as you like but stay on the topic of pipes poop and piles of sludge animals found in there are also welcome
sewage, sewerage, sludge, feces, poop, sewers, gunk, rat, mutant ninja turtles, alligator, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and 10 more...
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Forgotten English 1
jacal, mastaba, lucarne, quoin, triglyph, gargarice, nimgimmer, phrenologize, fleam, eaglestone, toad eater, king's evil and 156 more...
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Why We Curse: WTF?
This list collects the magnificent collection of vocabulary of the article "What the F***? Why We Curse," by Steven Pinker, in The New Republic (Oct. 2007). I think I'm more impressed with the coll...
curse, language, earthy, ancient, unthinkable, thinkable, emotional, rhyme, meter, alliteration, pleasure, metaphor and 196 more...
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1stDay
lucid, tenacious, adhesive, cling, reconcile, scenic, picturesque, inundate, gastrointestinal, diarrhea, heredity, alimentary canal and 89 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Words from "The Ghost Map"
"The Ghost Map", by steven Johnson, is a fascinating account of the (successful) investigation by two men, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, into the means by which cholera is transmitted, following t...
ghost map, epidemiology, dot map, voronoi diagram, index case, cholera, experimentum crucis, vibrio cholerae, microbe, germ theory, public health, animalcula and 61 more...
Tweets
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bilby You're the one talking shit. Jul 24, 2011
calcalvinvin You must have excrement for brains Jul 24, 2011