night soil

night soil

See also: nightsoil and night-soil

English

Alternative forms

• night-soil
• nightsoil

Noun

night soil (uncountable)

1. (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?" International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 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: Mandarin: 糞便 (zh), 粪便 (zh) (fènbiàn)

Finnish: uloste (fi) Russian: ночно́е зо́лото n (nočnóje zóloto)