Meanings
nounlatrinalia (uncountable)
- uncountableDeliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls.
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[…]
2020, Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegie, Little, Brown and Company, page 106
Origin
From latrine + -alia. Coined by American folklorist Alan Dundes in 1996, displacing the earlier shithouse poetry.
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APA
latrinalia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/latrinalia
MLA
“latrinalia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/latrinalia. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “latrinalia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/latrinalia.
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