scatology

Definition

The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”) + -ology.

Example Sentences

• "[…] lingo of the streets with its spewed out scatologies and its anti-womanist rhetoric of "hoes and bitches" — all so evocative of life in the ghetto […]"
• "Like James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom in the novel Ulysses (1922), Mozart seemed utterly comfortable with himself, bodily functions, and all.[…] In our view Mozart’s so-called scatology is part of his culture and personality and, as we have argued, intimately connected with his creativity."
• "The move to out-and-out scatology in humorous texts for junior readers takes off in the later 1990s, following the overt scatological humor of ground-breaking ‘bum and poo’ picture books for younger readers, such as Holzwarth’s The Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business (1998)."