stercoraceous

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
20
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˌstɜː.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
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/ˌstɜː.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/ · /ˌstɝ.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

Definition of stercoraceous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.
    “He had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling.”
    “I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.”
    “[W]e find it hard today to see the entertaining aspects of, for instance, stercoraceous jokes.”

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Etymology

From Latin stercorāceus, from stercus (“dung”).

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