Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

latrinalia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: la-tri-na-lia
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It wasn't until I gave up, closed and stowed my notebook, and was sitting on a toilet seat reading latrinalia on the stall door that I recalled[…]"

Etymology

From latrine + -alia. Coined by American folklorist Alan Dundes in 1996, displacing the earlier shithouse poetry.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does latrinalia mean?: Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.
Where does latrinalia come from?: From latrine + -alia. Coined by American folklorist Alan Dundes in 1996, displacing the earlier shithouse poetry.

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