scatology
英 [skæ'tɒlədʒɪ]
美[skə'tɑlədʒi]
- n. [基医] 粪便学；粪石学
英英释义
- 1. a preoccupation with scatology
- 2. (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
中文词源
scatology 粪便学
scat-,屎，粪便，词源同 shit,-logy,学说。
英文词源
- scatology (n.)
- "obscene literature," 1876, with -logy "treatise, study" + Greek skat-, stem of skor (genitive skatos) "excrement," from PIE *sker- "excrement, dung" (cognates: Latin stercus "dung"), literally "to cut off;" see shear (v.), and compare shit (v.). Related: Scatological (1886).