Coprophagic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Engaging in coprophagia.

    "In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, ‘the drawers bespattered with excrement were painted with such minute and realistic complacency that the whole little Surrealist group was anguished by the question: Is he coprophagic or not?’"

Synonyms

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stercophagicstercophagous

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"In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, ‘the drawers bespattered with excrement were painted with such minute and realistic complacency that the whole little Surrealist group was anguished by the question: Is he coprophagic or not?’"

Etymology

From copro- + -phagic.

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