Re: Shake, Rattle & Roll

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In article <mOidnbXBS8cuoLHA...@giganews.com>, Ubiquitous
<web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> fred...@gmail.com wrote:
> >On 7/10/19 9:05 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> >> TomB...@agent.com wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 04:07:38 -0500, trotsky <gms...@email.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 7/10/19 1:50 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >>>>> "Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> >>>>>> BTR1701 sent the following on 7/8/19 at 6:05 PM:
>
> >>>>>>> What are you, some kind of communist?
> >>>>>>> I bet you put ketchup on your hot
> >>>>>>> dogs, too.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Of course. But the ratio is one part ketchup to two parts mustard. Or
> >>>>>> skip both and go with chili sauce and some shredded cheese instead.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That's what I figured, tovarishch!
> >>>
> >>>> Why not just eat horseshit?
> >>>
> >>> I forgot, you're a vegan.
> >>
> >> You misspelled "corpraphage".
> >> You're welcome.
> >
> >It's coprophage, idiot.
>
> Wrong. The word literally means corpse-eater.
>
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=corprophagia
>
> "Spelling" "flame" noted. Get back to us when you have a real
> argument to make.

It's not a spelling flame. The Urban Dictionary is wrong here, Ubi,
and even in being wrong it mentions feces, not corpses, in the
definition. (The first clue that it's wrong is that there's only one
entry for a term that should have drawn more.) The word you may have
intended to use is coprophage, and it literally means "feces-eater."
It's from the Greek, copro (feces) and phagein (to eat). A coprophage
is a living organism that eats feces. There are some flies and beetles
that do so routinely.

There are no such words as "corprophage" or "corpraphage," although
this has not stopped people from using them anyway.