latrinal
English
Etymology
latrine + -al
Adjective
latrinal (not generally comparable, comparative more latrinal, superlative most latrinal)
- Of or related to a latrine; being or relating to a place for urination or defecation.
- 1862 February 13, B.E. Cotting, “Dr. Monroe's fracture bench”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page 38:
- This slit, with its cover, and a vessel placed upon a shelf, Fig. I.,k, laid across strips, e e, constitute the latrine. […] Fig. II. shows the form of the latrinal opening, and also the position of the cushions on either side of it for the seat.
- 1903, Aubrey Beardsley, Venus and Tannhäuser (Under the Hill):
- Felix always attended Venus upon her little latrinal excursions, holding her, serving her, and making much of all she did. To undo her things, lift her skirts, to wait and watch the coming, to dip a lip or finger in the royal output
- 2004, Sañjaya Siṃha, Some Other Horizon, page 82:
- He drew a deep breath in and the smell from the morning ablutions of his neighboring slum dwellers hit his nostrils and immediately fouled his mood. The shores of the Bagmati river provided an ideal latrinal retreat for the men and women in the Basti and despite numerous protestations by him, the lure of the sandy beaches and plenty of water proved too strong a temptation for his neighbors.
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- (literature, humor) Related to defecation or other taboo body functions, scatological.
- 1914, Charles Mills Gayley, Representative English Comedies: The Later Contemporaries of Shakespeare: Fletcher and Others, page xxiii:
- As for the verbal humour, it is normally pornographic; but it achieves the latrinal.
- 2015, Susan Signe Morrison, The Literature of Waste, acknowledgements:
- Ieva Reklaityke’s work in Kalamazoo on sewers unclogged my mind, Martha Bayless’s latrinal insights were pleasantly pungent, and Kevin J. Wanner guided me to Eyrbyggja Saga.
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