night soil

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Human faeces. archaic,euphemistic,uncountable
    — There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.

词形变化

night-soil alternative nightsoil alternative

词源

At least notionally because such soil was removed at night by nightmen, and because chamberpots were needed especially at night (when one, in one's nightgown, might be less disposed to leave the house for the outhouse); but the general taboo around human excrement encourages euphemism, and any word in the allusive range of the night–dark–black–bad archetypes might serve as well as another for the purpose; thus, compare blackwater.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary