stercoraceousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌstɜː.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌstɝ.kəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
• 韻: -eɪʃəs

形容詞

stercoraceous (comparative more stercoraceous, superlative most stercoraceous)

1. Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Penguin Classics, published 1985, page 46:

     He had reason to believe the stercoraceous flavour, condemned by prejudice as a stink, was, in fact, most agreeable to the organs of smelling.

   • 1856 May, Thomas Hughes, quoting Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], London: Macmillan and Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page lvi:

     I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.

   • 1988, Peter Wagner, Eros Rising, Paladin, published 1990, page 182:

     [W]e find it hard today to see the entertaining aspects of, for instance, stercoraceous jokes.

同意語

• fecal
• stercorous