coprophagic

English

Etymology

copro- +β€Ž -phagic

Adjective

coprophagic (comparative more coprophagic, superlative most coprophagic)

  1. Engaging in coprophagia.
    • 1944, George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Daliβ€Ž:
      In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, β€˜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?’

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