scatology

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Today we are going to deal with the media coverage of profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, and epithets, nouns often lumped together by the Bluenose Generation as coarseness, crudeness, bawdiness, scatology or swearing.

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  1. noun The study of fecal excrement, as in medicine, paleontology, or biology.
  2. noun An obsession with excrement or excretory functions.
  3. noun The psychiatric study of such an obsession.
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  • Today we are going to deal with the media coverage of profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, and epithets, nouns often lumped together by the Bluenose Generation as coarseness, crudeness, bawdiness, scatology or swearing. —  Vox Verax
  • Cannibalism, torture, scatology and gourmet cooking ensue. —  News & Events from Dartmouth
  • But stop wasting my time with your emotional platitudes and spare us your scatology. —  Home
  • If Sean heads back to the US, you must cease and desist posting on this site, and allow the SANER (don't chuckle, there are one or two) discussions to continue without interjecting your puerile mephitic scatology. —  Home
  • Johnny suggests you do something about your weakness for scatology if you want The Collected Works of Fan Lan-chin to become a modern classic of Chinese literature. —  Taipei Times
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  1. from Greek σκῶρ (σκατ-), dung, ordure + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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