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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > depraved appetite

pica1563

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).

单词	dirt-eating
释义	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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered nutrition > [noun] > depraved appetite pica1563 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). < n.1817
随便看	to be atragedizing to be au fait in or at to be awake to to be aware to be aware of to be aware that to be away to be away for slates to be back on one's feet to be bad kokum to be bad luck to be bad news to be badly served to be bagged to be battened on to be becalmed to be beforehand in the world to be beforehand with to be beforehand with the world to be behindhand in the world to be behindhand with the world to be beknown to be beleft to be beneath the mark to be bent