Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
geophagy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under
dirt .
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- noun The act or habit of
eating earth .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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Properly speaking, dirt-eating should be called geophagism; it is common in the Antilles and South America, among the low classes, and is seen in the negroes and poorest classes of some portions of the Southern United States.
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9.137 Properly speaking, dirt-eating should be called geophagism; it is common in the Antilles and South America, among the low classes, and is seen in the negroes and poorest classes of some portions of the Southern United States.
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