scatological
adjEtymology From scatology + -ical. Compare eschatological.
1
Formal Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces, or dung.
- The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.
2
Relating to scatology, the use of obscenities.
- His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.
- Notwithstanding that episode, this film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones.1993 May 21, Janet Maslin, “From 'Rambo' to Rodham, Smirking All the Way”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2020, retrieved 22 Apr 2014:
- Derived terms
- scatologically
- Related terms
- scat, scatology, scatologist