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night-soil

night-soil is the alternative spelling of night soil.

Meaning of night soil

Noun

night soil (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces; especially, such waste as has recently been added to an outhouse or dry closet and will need removal.
    • There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse, →ISBN

Forms of night-soil

pluralnight-soils

Questions about night-soil

What is night-soil the alternative spelling of?
Night-soil is the alternative spelling of night soil.

Words near night-soil in the dictionary

  1. night-scented jasmine
  2. night-scented jasmines
  3. night-shining cloud
  4. night-skies
  5. night-sky
  6. night-soil
  7. night-soils
  8. night-song
  9. night-songs
  10. night-stalker
  11. night-stalkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: night-soil (page history and authors); night soil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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