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caprophage

A caprophage is an animal who survives harsh conditions by feasting on its own foeces.
Shirley really reminds me of a caprophage the way she eats.
by Conor Fenn October 28, 2007
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Coprophage

This means, quite literally, “one who eats faeces”. French beef farmers, supplying meat for export, feed their cattle human faeces as a cheap food as it contains large amounts of partially digested cellulose and thereafter the cows exhibited coprophagic behaviour. Under certain conditions dogs also develop coprophagic behaviour, but this can be prevented, and cured, by feeding them tinned pineapple!

The use of the term has expanded to describe someone who, while not very clever or good at their job, is always smarming round the boss. The sort of behaviour exhibited is:

1. laughing excessively at the smallest joke;
2. apparently sharing the same interests and hobbies as the boss;
3. getting the boss tea or coffee without being asked;
4. sending the boss Christmas and Birthday cards, often with a gift attached;

Exactly the sort of behaviour that makes you think that if the boss crapped on their desk they’d eat it and swear it was ambrosia. These people are usually mediocre to poor performers and its only their relationship with the boss that keeps them from being potted.
“Malcolm’s just given the boss a big birthday card and a present, so I told him he was a perfect coprophage. The twat looked at me as if I’d just paid him a compliment.”
“You did. Nothing about that wanker is perfect.”
by AKACroatalin March 16, 2019
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coprophagous smirk

This is a nonsubtle smile that indicates the maker has a joyous secrt: a shit-eating grin
Jack finally got laid and went around all of the next day with a coprophagous smirk on his face.
by eViL pOp TaRt July 30, 2011
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coprophagic

adjective, (literally) "shit eating"

1. Pertaining to voluntary ingestion of excrement, either for sexual excitement or self-effacement.

2. Describing something with a guilty, shameful, or otherwise disgracing association or connotation.
1a) After several sessions of water sports, the gay couple began exploring coprophagic activities including deep rimming and anal sucking.

1b) "Did you enjoy the coprophagic humor in 'The Help' when a discharged domestic worker in the book/movie prepared a pie from her own fecal excretions and fed it to her former employer?"

2a) When the wife returned home unexpectedly finding her husband lustily pumping his seed into the family's pet collie, all he could do was look back sheepishly with a coprophagic grin.

2b) Considering their winless season, their failure to score in several games, and their seemingly indifferent playing style, even the coach began badmouthing his own coprophagic team.
by Fatlips October 17, 2011
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cacophage

a poop eater. somone who likes to eat poop.
"my dog is a cacophage." "bruce stop cacophaging."
by boyfriend and boyfriend February 17, 2008
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Coprophagia

The name of the condition that describes someone who loves to eat shit. As in stools or poo poo. It is occatinally seen in animals and sometimes humans. This is known as "Scat Eating"
by 1069 June 4, 2005
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coprophagiac

An eater of feces. Poop-eater.
One who can't help but eat feces, their own, or another's.
Rabbits, ruminants, dung beetles, and some dogs are coprophagiacs.
by DigNature April 20, 2009
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