Definitions
Etymologies
- Old French espraintes, espreintes, French épreintes from espreinte ("a desire to go to stool"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Likely sites are searched for signs of otter presence such as paw prints or spraint - droppings.”
The Guardian: River clean-up brings otters back from brink of extinction
“He tryed to imataet semafor bunneh and spraint hiz eer flap.”
Van Gogh cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“I spraint my shoulder ropin 'that steer an' I just be'n over to see doc an 'he says I should keep offen bad horses fer a spell.”
“I razer zink I am," returned the philosopher with a faint smile; "mine onkle, I zink, is spraint.”
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
“Lark Rise Farm I saw one just days ago - fantastic, a kingfisher was spotted flying along the brook and I found an otter spraint under the brook bridge.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“On another occasion, I showed the boys the foot of a baby moorhen that had been eaten by an otter and then showed them some otter spraint (droppings), explaining that otters always spraint when they have finished eating.”
“As a result, otters spraint the place with particular emphasis: whose river is it anyway?”
“In fact they may already be there - they can be hard things to see, and finding spraint and footprints is a specialist job.”
“Aha! I’d been trying to figure out why the package said “Otter whoopsies – a wee spraint for you””
“the jelly" and he proscribed it as an otters spraint, not so sure myself but could be worth while looking into, maybe more of a possibility as otter vomit, only a suggestion.”
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Specific Excrement
Words that describe poo *very specifically*.
guano, frass, spraints, fumets, mutessing, fiants, crottels, worm-cast, tath, bodewash, coprolite, bois de vache and 55 more...
Tweets
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reesetee I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going near that question. May 13, 2011
chained_bear See also spraints. Which you'd think, if you're an otter and you're going poo, you'd probably do more than one spraint anyhow. Right? Right? May 13, 2011