night soil

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   human excreta used as fertilizer

   Broadermanure

Questions about night soil

What does night soil mean?

night soil means "human excreta used as fertilizer".

Is night soil a common word?

night soil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.