Etymology

latrinalia

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Today it means: Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.