I have some fun etymological trivia related to that.
Late Proto-Indo-European had a root typically reconstructed as *kakka-. It means “to shit” or “shit”. It’s imitative in nature so not exactly a “fancy” word, right off the bat; more like a “child-friendly vulgarism”.
That root is still present in Armenian (k’ak’), Russian (kakat’), Lithuanian (kaka), the Romance languages (cacare/cagar/etc.), the Iranian languages (kaka/kakā/kake/etc.), and other Indo-European languages. Still ranging from childish to vulgar.
A word that stops being used is not inherited. If that root was inherited by so many languages, it means that it kept being used, from ~five millenniums ago to now.
Obligatory musical reference: [this goliardic song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5NR0Bz_1mY ). “Oh, how beautiful it is, to shit [cagar] in the mountain, where the grass tickles you in the hole of the butt”. It’s just keeping up with a 5000yo tradition.
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