The worthless word for the day is: geophagous
[fr. geo-, of earth + -phagia, eating]
Earth-eating
"The Brothers were severely censured for encouraging geophagous inclinations among the local nobility, whose ladies they had inspirited with a craving for the taste of the local earth, as seasoning, or a dish in itself: it was, after all, Spanish earth."
- William Gaddis, The Recognitions
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