stercoration
Mar. 9th, 2026 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordstercoration (stir-koh-RAY-shuhn) - (obs.) n., the act of manuring (ground) with dung.
That is, fertilizing with shit. Dates to 1605 and generally rare, but odd enough it still shows up every so often -- taken from Latin stercoratio, from stercorare, which meant both to add manure and to clean manure out (of e.g. a horse's stall).
---L.
That is, fertilizing with shit. Dates to 1605 and generally rare, but odd enough it still shows up every so often -- taken from Latin stercoratio, from stercorare, which meant both to add manure and to clean manure out (of e.g. a horse's stall).
---L.
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Date: 2026-03-09 06:43 pm (UTC)I wish. (Never visit the Italian countryside during summer!)
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Date: 2026-03-09 07:36 pm (UTC)Not that doing it is rare, just the word!