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Words that Have to Do with Poop
. . . [A] tip for scatologically minded word-lovers: many of the most weirdly cognate and thoroughly obscene, cloacal, and stercoraceous words in the English language appear in unabridged dictionaries between coppice and copse.
From Garner’s Modern American Usage, 3rd edition, page 204 (the last paragraph in the entry “copse; coppice”).
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