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scatophage.

A shiteater: a human or animal that consumes excrement.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A shiteater: a human or animal that consumes excrement.

    usually
  2. A dungfly.

Where this word comes from

From New Latin scatophagus, from Ancient Greek σκατοφάγος (skatophágos), from σκατο- (skato-, “shit”) and φάγος (phágos, “eater; glutton”), from φᾰγεῖν (phăgeîn, “to eat”) + -ος (-os, “-er”, forming agent nouns). Equivalent to scato- + -phage. In particular reference to dungflies, an anglicization of their genus Scatophaga.

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