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scatophiliac

scatophiliac noun: one who exhibits scatophilia.

Noun

scatophiliac (plural scatophiliacs)

  1. (rare) One who exhibits scatophilia.
    • Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces.1973, Anthony Burgess, Obscenity and the Arts
    • Joseph Mallard Turner had a profound, if scatophiliac, attraction to fire at sea.1985, Michael Tobias, After Eden: History, Ecology, and Conscience, page 236
    Synonyms:
    scatophile

Synonyms of scatophiliac

Forms of scatophiliac

pluralscatophiliacs

Origin of scatophiliac

From scato- + -philiac.

Questions about scatophiliac

What does scatophiliac mean?
Scatophiliac means one who exhibits scatophilia.
What part of speech is scatophiliac?
Scatophiliac is a noun.
What is the plural of scatophiliac?
The plural of scatophiliac is scatophiliacs.

Words near scatophiliac in the dictionary

  1. scatophagous
  2. scatophagy
  3. scatophile
  4. scatophiles
  5. scatophilia
  6. scatophiliac
  7. scatophiliacs
  8. scatophilic
  9. scatopsid
  10. scatopsids
  11. scatoscopy

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