Specific Excrement

trivet commented on the list specific-excrement

fewmets, mutes?

February 27, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

I couldn't find fewmets as an entry in the OED, but I tried "fumet" and it came up feces of deer (rarely singular). Interestingly, in the usage notes, it's nearly always spelled "fewmets."

Mutess (it's listed with two s's) is a verb: to discharge feces, as a hawk. Mutessing, the OED says, is the participle but also the noun.

Thanks for these wildly archaic terms!

February 27, 2007

uselessness commented on the list specific-excrement

Interesting (disgusting) list. Might I suggest crotels from a hare; friants from a boar; werderobe from a badger; and waggying from a fox? I got these from a Google search and can't verify their authenticity... but still.

February 27, 2007

sionnach commented on the list specific-excrement

I think I've seen fewmets in Mrs Byrne's dictionary at some point

February 27, 2007

sionnach commented on the list specific-excrement

fiants from a badger?

February 27, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

OED lists "fiants" as "The dung of certain animals, e.g. the badger, fox, etc." My first thought is to argue that it's not specific enough for the Specific Excrement list. My second thought is, how stupid is that first thought?

u, I wasn't able to find friants, werderobe, or waggying in the OED. I tried some different spellings but wasn't very thorough. Thanks for the suggestions!

Also, I think you forgot your Note to Self ;)

February 27, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Oh, crap. You did it. You actually made this list. Look away, uselessness!

February 27, 2007

trivet commented on the list specific-excrement

I first came across fewmets and probably mutes when my father read me The Sword in the Stone. King Pellinore had a box of the Questing Beast's fewmets that he would show to anyone he managed to corner. I'm amazed that this information has stuck with me lo these many years.

February 27, 2007

uselessness commented on the list specific-excrement

Dangit, those notes never work! Just call me Mr. Short Term Memory. Crap crap crap.

Although I must say, these words are exponentially less intimidating than I thought they would be. Some are even downright cute.

February 27, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

They almost *have* to be cute, don't you think? To make up for their...disgustingness.

February 27, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Trivet, that's not only amazing--it's rather alarming. ;-)

February 27, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Bodewash = cow dung. And don't forget wormcast, which is exactly what it sounds like. And tath, which is cattle droppings.

Don't ask me the difference between cattle and cow dung. Just don't.

February 27, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Could not find bodewash, sorry! Added wormcast, though OED gives it a hyphen. Stupid OED... And as for tath, it has several meanings. Cool. Thanks. I think.

February 27, 2007

uselessness commented on the list specific-excrement

It may be time to dethrone the OED from its place as official English canon. It's preventing too many great words from making this list! :-) A little Googling is all the verification I need, as it proves a word is "in use" by multiple people. Isn't that all it takes for a word to be considered real?

February 27, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Well, sure, I guess so. But it flies in the face of your unofficial rules, doesn't it? To make up words and insert definitions? I mean, like, people would just make up words then, like frink or something...

I really really hate finding a new cool word on Wordie, and clicking on all the links, and not finding a definition. The OED isn't one of those links, but so far it has included far more of those words (the ones with mostly non-useful links) than any other dictionary, so... I kind of like it. Plus it offers usage notes, which are sometimes priceless.

But wait... you were kidding! ... Weren't you? ... *crickets*

February 28, 2007

uselessness commented on the list specific-excrement

First. Maybe you haven't noticed, but I think by now I've broken every single one of my stupid rules. I was actually going to delete that list but there are too many good comments on it.

Second. I don't have a problem with made up words -- I think that's part of the fun of the site.

Third. Apparently, there are real words that have been overlooked by the OED. For example, the suggestion bodewash for this list appears in Merriam-Webster. But not OED. I think it ought to count. But that's just me.

February 28, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

u, I'm surprised at your peevish tone. You didn't even pick on me for listing frink! chained_bear sad. chained_bear can't talk properly with tongue stuck in cheek.

I can't get into M-W for that word. Mind posting the definition on the word page for me? Nudge nudge wink wink?

February 28, 2007

trivet commented on the list specific-excrement

How about coprolite? Or are fossils out?

February 28, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Well, it's a very specific kind of excrement, so I think it counts. Thanks, trivet!

February 28, 2007

uselessness commented on the list specific-excrement

Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to come across peevishly. Sometimes that happens. And I can't get into M-W either, I was just noting that a definition exists there. :-) Congratulations on finding a good definition though, it works for me.

February 28, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Here's an interesting bit that's apropos here. There's a type of coffee, Kopi Luwak from Indonesia, that sells for about $160/lb. Why? It's made from coffee cherries that have been eaten by palm civets, which use their sharp sense of smell to select the choicest and ripest beans. They eat the beans, and during digestion, the flesh is removed from the berry, leaving only the bean. These...er, pooped-out beans...are hand collected from the floor of the jungle (not by the civets).

The bad news? I can't find a specific word for the palm civet poo. The good news is that this is Wordie--and we can make up words. I vote crappuccino.

February 28, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

That is truly disgusting. I did know about this phenomenon, I think, but I didn't know it was palm civets. I would have guessed pigs or something. How vile. I'm so glad I don't drink coffee...

p.s. uselessness, I didn't think you were *really* peevish. Figured you were having a bad day. :)

March 4, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

I drink coffee, and plenty of it. But no Kopi Luwak for me, thankyouverymuch.

March 4, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

At the risk of starting a fracas, I have another word for this stercoraceous list: scumber (dogs and foxes). Jennarenn, maybe you can use this one in class too? ;-)

October 3, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

I added it, but I'm resentful about it. It isn't a specific type of poo, it's just dung... I don't know how I feel about that.

October 4, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

I don't know how I feel about you not knowing how you feel about dung.

October 4, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Yeah. I know.

October 5, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Okay--crappé? But scumber is added with resentment??

October 16, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

I feel better about that now. I thought you should know. And just to show there are no hard feelings, I'm adding crappucino too.

October 16, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Gosh, c_b, I just don't know what to say. *tears of gratitude* I'm just happy you feel better. That's what's important, after all. A person has to feel good about specific excrement.

October 16, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Aah, don't frass yourself, reesetee. *gives noogie* We buds.

October 16, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Hey! Watch the hair! :-P

October 16, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Okay, I have more, but only if you don't ask where I found them (it's too embarrassing): buttons (sheep dung), crotiles or crotisings (hare droppings), lesses (boar, bear, or wolf doo-doo), billitting (fox drops), and last but most assuredly not least, fuants (any vermin excrement).

You're welcome. Enjoy your lunch.

October 24, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Eeyew. So where did you find... oh. Nevermind.

Actually, can you verify that the ones with S's are actually spelled that way in the singular? I'll add them.

October 24, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

No. No I can't verify them. Unless, of course, you pay me.

Oh, all right. I don't feel up to eating a cookie right now anyway. I believe buttons, crotiles, crotisings, and lesses are collective nouns, so it's probably not "proper" to singularize them. And according to OED, fuants was once spelled "feance," so all bets are off on that one.

Now if you'll excuse me, I feel the need for a shower.

October 24, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

Oh, by the way--you come up 4th on the Google search for "animal excrement words." Be proud.

October 24, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Thanks! *adjusts tiara* I consider it honor aplenty that this comments list is SO LONG. People must really be interested in poo!

Also, I noticed that "fiants" is already on my list, and the OED has defined that as "the dung of certain animals, e.g. badger, etc." But I added the spellings of "feance" and "fuants" as well, with "see also" notes on those pages. Hey, it's only fair. If you're looking for just the right word to describe, say, badger dung, you ought to be given options for how to spell it.

October 24, 2007

sionnach commented on the list specific-excrement

c_b: Paradoxically, I've heard that storing one's tiara in a jar of suitably chosen animal excrement is an excellent way of keeping it free of unsightly blemishes, and allows it to be burnished to a warm glowing sheen*.

*: more likely to be Martin than Charlie, at a guess.

October 24, 2007

skipvia commented on the list specific-excrement

But...who would you get to burnish it?

October 24, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Oh, depending on the type of excrement, I guess I'd burnish it myself. If I have, you know, those long rubber gloves that go up to your shoulders, that veterinarians use to reach into... Well. I'd burnish my own tiara. I'm no elitist.

In other news, I'm putting out an APB now for a word that means, specifically, bear poo. Or even chained bear poo. (Sionnach, that's your cue to come up with some brilliant creation, e.g. cephalopygian. :) ) But NOT chained_bear poo. That's just gross.

October 24, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

I think it's time I bow out now.

Eesh. *mutters while walking away*

October 24, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

I am beginning to wonder if, despite the slanginess of them, batshit and apeshit belong here.

I'm thinking no, because despite what you *think* when breaking down those compound words, as slang terms they, like "suck," don't really refer to the physical objects that the separate component words normally denote.

So... no.

I'm glad I answered my own question so publicly.

October 25, 2007

arby commented on the list specific-excrement

I would agree with you there c_b - batshit and apeshit are used as adjectives (I think that's the right POS) describing people's states of mind, not nouns for the shit of the actual animal in question. Batshit would be guano, not sure if there's a specific term for ape shit.

October 26, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

If there is one, though, at least we have a list we can add it to. Thank heaven that work has been done.

October 26, 2007

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

And we owe it all to you. :-D

October 26, 2007

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

There are a few words which relate to a piece of poo stuck to an animal's backside ... isn't fur a wonderful thing? Dingleberry comes to mind. Clegnut, possibly with double 'g'. And there's a more formal kind of term which escapes me right now.

November 21, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Thanks bilby. I thought about adding dingleberry and dag, but just can't see my way clear. They're not specific poo so much as poo stuck to fur or, more usually, wool. In that sense they're specific as to location upon an animal, but not as to the type of animal or poo itself. In other words... not specific enough.

That said... I had no idea about the word clegnut. I did not find it in the OED! Also found out that dag has about seventeen meanings, some of them verbs. Bizarre.

November 21, 2007

sionnach commented on the list specific-excrement

I imagine khepri as the kheper of this list.

December 6, 2007

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

Meconium is deliciously specific :-)

December 13, 2007

skipvia commented on the list specific-excrement

Probably the first time I have seen meconium and "deliciously" in the same sentence.

January 15, 2008

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

And let's hope it's the last.

January 15, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

Snot.

September 12, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

I don't think I'll ever get a suggestion on this list but I'm not giving up hope. Sewage.

September 23, 2008

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

A boy can dream. . . .

September 23, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

Hang on, I think I backed a winner with meconium. Yay! *whirls jacket around head and goes for a tumbril ride*

October 10, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

lotium.

October 15, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

I'm adding it, but I don't like it. It's just wee! How is that specific? It's a specific tonic, or lotion, but the wee itself doesn't have a specific origin. *sigh* I guess I just don't care anymore.

At least my stylist doesn't use this.

That I know of.

Edit: Your suggestion led me to sionnach's list, which (though mostly nasty) also listed Premarin, which, though a Trade Name (and I have a list for those) is also delightfully specific. And just when I was about to add it, I noticed my own list description, which lists only poo and not wee. Sadly, I do not have a list on which Premarin fits. In which case lotium ought to go as well.

I will spend the rest of the day pondering on this and feeling guilty.

October 15, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

Well coprolite for example refers to form, not origin. Lotium is specific as you note in terms of its purpose ... surely this is one of the nowadays neglected glories of excrement?

I am glad you will spend the rest of the day in wee ponder.

October 15, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Coprolite does refer to origin. When it's found, and therefore named, it's ancient. Its age is part of its origins. It describes (as my list description above states) poo *very specifically*.

"Lotium" does not describe poo very specifically.

And of course, anyone here who objects to my criteria for inclusion is more than welcome to make their own lists of specific piss.

Edit: HERE is an open list for all you pissabeds to play with. Have fun.

*delirious with freedom from guilt*

October 15, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

*wails* I don't do excrement lists. You do excrement lists. You preside over an international network of excrement emporia. I couldn't be trusted with the exquisite urinary franchise ... the responsibility!

October 15, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Enjoy the guilt, pal. It's like earworms.

October 15, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

imbulbiate.

November 12, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

biosolid!

November 26, 2008

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

fizzy gravy.

December 5, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

I'm not adding anything that makes me vomit.

December 5, 2008

madmouth commented on the list specific-excrement

dejecta is a curiosity I tumbled across (figuratively! figuratively!) on the WWftD dictionary

June 22, 2009

madmouth commented on the list specific-excrement

mixen, I think

August 7, 2009

sionnach commented on the list specific-excrement

Though I know that the ursine queen herself has questioned the relevance of this list for such topics as dags and dingleberries, I still don't know of any better place to share the discovery I made yesterday (on page 209 of Bill Bryson's "Made in America"), that the Pennsylvania Dutch word for "the globules of dung found on hair in the vicinity of the anus" is aarschgnoddle. What a perfect word!

November 20, 2009

dontcry commented on the list specific-excrement

I remember when we moved to Oklahoma when I was in 5th grade, our neighbor referred to her dog's poo as "duke." She called it "dog duke." I had never heard that expression before -- or since.

November 20, 2009

whichbe commented on the list specific-excrement

I'm not sure which poo lists these belong on, but here's some poo words: immerd, imbulbiate, conskite, spatilomancy, merdivorous, coprophagous, dejecta, casson, ornithocoprous

November 20, 2009

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

cecotrope

November 24, 2009

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Allow me to bemoan my fate for a moment... just now I was reading through these to look for words specific to cattle and actually considering whether there are enough to make an even more specific list (sharn, wax, cowflop, cowflap, cowpat, Lord help me).

Is this one of the several stages?

Edit: And if I ever did make such a list, would you consider co-hosting it? :-)

August 17, 2010

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

I can tell you one thing: It is one of the Several Stages.

August 18, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Freud would probably have something to say about the stage where we think about specific excrement....

August 18, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Oh. Hey dontcry - check out dookie. (I've also heard it as doogie, dog doodie, and doggy doo doo.)

August 18, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list specific-excrement

Ahem, *droppings* - not specific unless dealing with those of the tree shrew: "A 2009 study found that mature N(epenthes) lowii plants derived 57–100% of their foliar nitrogen from tree shrew droppings." - statement in the "Loss of carnivory" section of the Wikipedia discussion on protocarnivorous plants.

August 18, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

See drek.

September 15, 2010

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

Flying toilet.

October 23, 2010

marky commented on the list specific-excrement

lolz

October 23, 2010

reesetee commented on the list specific-excrement

It appears we may have a new kind of specific excrement soon.

October 28, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

How about lobster-chum?

March 23, 2011

sionnach commented on the list specific-excrement

No thanks, chum. I'm allergic to shellfish.

March 23, 2011

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

ruzuzu, that's disgusting. Added. :)

March 23, 2011

Wordplayer commented on the list specific-excrement

Hahaha...cow-shard!

March 30, 2011

Prolagus commented on the list specific-excrement

cowpat?

May 13, 2011

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Would this count?

scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

June 17, 2011

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

(See the soylent brown link over on bilby.)

June 20, 2011

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

It's a bit tenuous, but there's nothing like this list as a venue for enlightened debate. butterfly

April 27, 2012

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

purging

January 3, 2013

deinonychus commented on the list specific-excrement

Not sure if they make the list, but this article about faecal transplants is full of stuff like RePOOPulate, stool substitute and pseudo-poo... And for some reason I felt that I had to share that with someone.

January 12, 2013

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

deinonychus, I am so grateful to you for sharing that information. This list is *exactly* the place for sharing that sort of thing, and I'm moved (ahem) that you did so.

I thought your link might be to this article, but I was (delightfully) wrong! Yet another article on the phenomenon! Poo-nomenon! Thank you for enriching our lives. :)

January 15, 2013

deinonychus commented on the list specific-excrement

Ooh, you listed rectally applied yoghurt as well! That one sort of got stuck in my mind...

I'm glad this list exists, it's not easy to find a place where an article like that will be properly appreciated!

January 16, 2013

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Ain't that the truth.

January 16, 2013

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

diarrhea, or diarrhoea if you graduated from Australian spelling bees. If you want more specific there's diarrhoea crapulosa. No I didn't make that up.

January 16, 2013

deinonychus commented on the list specific-excrement

Speaking of Australia... This article is about "earrings made out of koala feces sold by the True Blue Roo Poo Company, an Australian business that specializes in making products out of animal poop." But I can't find their web page, so maybe they are out of business? (But I don't see how that could be possible.)

January 20, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

It's a former holding of the True Blue Ruzuzu Company. There was a hostile takeover, it got sold dirt cheap, and everybody lost their assets.

January 20, 2013

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

keriorrhea. And dejection, now that I'm here.

January 29, 2013

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

Eew! Added.

January 31, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

You should mine this for comedy gold: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-bug-golden-egg.html

February 3, 2013

chained_bear commented on the list specific-excrement

This is also pretty fun.

February 5, 2013

deinonychus commented on the list specific-excrement

Maybe you can find some good words in this article about human dung being the most attractive (for dung beetles, that is).

March 3, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Um... I'll just leave this here for you.*

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=toilet-tissue-anthropologists-uncover-all-the-ways-weve-wiped

*Note to yarb: It mentions Rabelais.

March 8, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Fecal odorgrams: http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2013/04/26/friday-weird-science-stop-and-smell-the-st/

(Note the bit about the bear doing its part for science.)

April 28, 2013

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

I've been thinking about business. In the sense of 'Marky stepped in some dog's business on the way to the geekfest', business is clearly shit. But is it specific enough?
AHD - no definition with this sense.
Wiktionary - n. Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
GNU - no definition with this sense.
CDC - n. To ease one's self at stool.
Wordnet - no definition with this sense.
The Wiktionary definition, which seems to adequately capture the sense I am referring to, has specific quality to whit 'of a non-human animal'.
Hmmmm.

September 25, 2013

marky commented on the list specific-excrement

yes, i saw that.

September 25, 2013

ruzuzu commented on the list specific-excrement

Reading about mummyberry reminded me of zombie ants--which then reminded me of frass. I started to get that panicky feeling that maybe frass wasn't listed here yet, but it was.

I love you all.

*sighs contentedly*

March 6, 2014

ry commented on the list specific-excrement

album graecum

March 27, 2014

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

Oooh, that's a good 'un.

March 27, 2014

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

This is a noble list. A trove of tailings, a nest of nuggets. Thank you, chained_bear et al!

Philosophers know all things must pass.

What enters the mouth comes out the ass

As dung, scat and scumber -

Too many to number!

Saints leave us turds, insects their frass.

June 17, 2014

deinonychus commented on the list specific-excrement

Not sure if this is specific enough, but I didn't know a better place for it:

In the words of marine biologists Joe Roman and James McCarthy, many whales feed in the deeper tiers of the sea to then return to the surface and release “flocculent fecal plumes” – cetacean clouds that may create what Roman and McCarthy call a “whale pump“.

March 23, 2015

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

We hunted whales to watery tombs

For ambergris in our perfumes.

How sweeter the scent

Of their excrement,

Adrift in flocculent fecal plumes.

March 23, 2015

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

The ocean has bubbles and spumes
And none dread its mists or its brumes,
Except near the tails
Of frolicking whales
That fling out flocculant fecal plumes.

March 24, 2015

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

The ecdysiast gaggle consumes

Big feathers to serve as costumes.

The strangest creation

Is the dancing cetacean,

Adorned in flocculant fecal plumes.

March 24, 2015

deinonychus commented on the list specific-excrement

Ooh, just one poem ending in fecal plumes would have made me happy, but now three!

March 24, 2015

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

"Flocculant fecal plumes" is a major discovery. Thank you. I look forward to your next revelations.

March 24, 2015

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

gobar

June 9, 2015

alexz commented on the list specific-excrement

tappen is quite specific

June 9, 2015

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

tephra?

November 25, 2015

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

I know, not really, but I think of volcanoes as grumpy giants.

November 25, 2015

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

How about recrement?

January 25, 2016

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

frass!

February 3, 2016

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

caca-dauphin

July 4, 2017

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

goose-turd green

September 22, 2017

qms commented on the list specific-excrement

casting = the excrement of an earthworm.

April 16, 2019

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

nincompoop

February 25, 2020

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

cubed poo - https://www.tasmaniantimes.com/2021/01/cube-poo-heres-how-wombats-do-it/

January 28, 2021

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

fimashing

September 9, 2021

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

faecalith

June 16, 2022

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

See also acoprosis for specific non-excrement :-/

August 2, 2022

bilby commented on the list specific-excrement

One could possibly make a case for stercory as Papal excrement given the use of the term seems pretty much limited to this: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/19552/were-the-medieval-popes-examined-on-a-toilet-lid-like-chair-to-establish-their-m

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