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latrinalia

latrinalia noun: deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.

Noun

latrinalia (uncountable)

  1. Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.
    • It wasn't until I gave up, closed and stowed my notebook, and was sitting on a toilet seat reading latrinalia on the stall door that I recalled[…]2020, Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegie, Little, Brown and Company, page 106

Origin of latrinalia

From latrine + -alia. Coined by American folklorist Alan Dundes in 1996, displacing the earlier shithouse poetry.

Questions about latrinalia

What does latrinalia mean?
Latrinalia means deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.
What part of speech is latrinalia?
Latrinalia is a noun.

Words near latrinalia in the dictionary

  1. latrid
  2. latridiid
  3. latridiids
  4. latrids
  5. latrinal
  6. latrinalia
  7. latrine
  8. latrines
  9. Latrino
  10. Latrinos
  11. latrobe

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