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单词 dirt-eating
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dirt-eatingn.

/ˈdəːtiːtɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dirt n., eating n.
Etymology: < dirt n. + eating n. Compare earth-eating n. and adj. at earth n.1 Compounds 8b and geophagy n.
1. The eating of some kinds of earth or clay as food, practised by some indigenous peoples, as the Ottomaks of South America, and some Arctic peoples.
2. A disorder of the nutritive functions, characterized by a morbid craving to eat earth or dirt.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > depraved appetite
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green sickness1596
malacia1656
pique1678
dirt-eating1817
geophagy1821
earth hunger1857
geophagia1863
coprophagy1891
parorexia1897
coprophagia1906
trichophagia1909
trichophagy1963
1817 Edinb. Rev. 28 359 The accounts..of the Stomach-evil, sometimes called Dirt-eating.
1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 97 For some time past she had been addicted to dirt-eating (eating earth)..a disease, which..terminates in dropsy and death.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 49 The singular propensity to dirt-eating, a disease which has acquired from the French the name of mal d'estomac.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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