night soil

See also: nightsoil and night-soil

English

Alternative forms

Noun

night soil (uncountable)

(archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces.
- 1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse‎, →ISBN:
  There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.
- 2006, Mario Giampietro et al., “Can Biofuels replace Fossil Energy Fuels?”, in International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, volume 1, number 1, page 58:
  The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.
- 2017, Jennifer Taylor, Echoes of the Moon, →ISBN:
  Time for the local night soil man to appear. He left the inn to find the night man who serviced the place.

Translations

human faeces

Chinese:
Cantonese: 夜香 (je⁶ hoeng¹), 夜來香／夜来香 (je⁶ loi⁴ hoeng¹)

Mandarin: 糞便／粪便 (zh) (fènbiàn)
Finnish: uloste (fi)
Russian: ночно́е зо́лото n (nočnóje zóloto)

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