latrinalia

English

Etymology

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

Noun

latrinalia (uncountable)

  1. Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.
    • 2020, Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegie, Little, Brown and Company, page 106:
      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 […]
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