night soil

See also: nightsoil and night-soil

English

Alternative forms

Noun

night soil (uncountable)

(archaic, euphemistic) Human faeces.
- 1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse, →ISBN :
  There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.
- 2006, Mario Giampietro et al. "Can Biofuels replace Fossil Energy Fuels?" International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 58:
  The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.
- 2017, Jennifer Taylor, Echoes of the Moon, →ISBN:
  Time for the local night soil man to appear. He left the inn to find the night man who serviced the place.

Translations

human faeces

Chinese:
Mandarin: 糞便 (zh), 粪便 (zh) (fènbiàn)

Finnish: uloste (fi)
Russian: ночно́е зо́лото n (nočnóje zóloto)

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