29 Jun
2009
29 Jun
'09
11:13 a.m.
On 6/29/09, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
I was meaning the modern use of the word to refer not merely to "dung"
but as slang for coprophilia, which is how the word has been used
widely on the internet in recent years.
Besides the
obvious modern dirty meaning of the word, there is another.
?????? The use of the word "scat" to mean
"ordure, dung" goes back several
centuries.
It is a learned borrowing, from the ancient Greek _skOr_, _skatos_,[1] of
the same meaning
Yes. I've taken ancient Greek and read/write/speak modern Greek. The
word is still in use on the streets of Greece in a recognizable form.
-ethan