feces
pronunciation
How to pronounce feces in British English:
UK ['fi:si:z]
How to pronounce feces in American English:
US [ˈfisiz]
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- Noun:
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Word Origin
- feces (n.)
- also faeces, c. 1400, "dregs," from Latin faeces "sediment, dregs," plural of faex (genitive faecis) "grounds, sediment, wine-lees, dregs," which is of unknown origin. Specific sense of "human excrement" is from 1630s in English but is not found in classical Latin. Hence Latin faex populi "the dregs of the people; the lowest class of society."
Example
- 1. Following which , they will pelt you with feces .
- 2. Feces fall into a drum beneath the toilet . Instead of flushing with water , you use a dry substance .
- 3. Even if you managed to survive your infancy , dodge the black plague , famine and the general hazards of going through life with your neighbor 's feces getting dumped into your drinking water , you 'd still probably bedead by age 35 .
- 4. Or consider the findings of paul rozin , a professor of psychology at the university of pennsylvania , that people often refuse to drink soup from a brand-new bedpan , eat fudge shaped like feces , or put an empty gun to their head and pull the trigger .
- 5. Tu-103 was discovered in animal feces .