poop
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- //ˈpuːp//
To defecate.
verbo
- 1
obsoletoTo make a short blast on a horn.
- 2
obsoletoTo break wind.
- 3
informaleTo defecate.
His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.
- 4
informaleTo defecate. To defecate in or on something.
You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.
- 5
informaleTo defecate. To defecate on one's person.
You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.
Etimologia
Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
sostantivo
- 1
informaleFecal matter; feces.
The dog poop is on the grass.
- 2
informaleAn act of defecation.
‘I’m goin’ down the backyard for me mornin’ poop.’
- 3
The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.
Two minutes passed - five - seven - ten. "Poop! Poop!" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station.
- 4
Variante di YouTube poopEllipsis of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).
The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one.
And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops.
interiezione
- 1
Expressing annoyed disappointment.
Poop. The copier's broken again.
I don't need him for a friend. I can have fun by myself! ... Poop.
sostantivo
- 1
A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.
If Exxon has already made a find, and someone knows about it, they'd be the most likely to be directing the show. We just need to discover who has ties to the D.O.F and is close enough to Exxon to have the inside poop.
Etimologia
Recorded in World War II (1941) Army slang poop sheet (“up-to-date information”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps toilet paper (referring to etymology 1).
verbo
- 1
To tire, exhaust.
I'm pooped from working so hard.
- 2
(with out) To become tired and exhausted.
He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.
Etimologia
Uncertain, perhaps sound imitation.
sostantivo
- 1
The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.
- 2
The poop deck.
Omens thicken upon us […] Next, the stumbling of the King whenas he went upon the poop of the long ship which bare us on this voyage to these islands.
Etimologia
From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
verbo
- 1
To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
- 2
To break over the stern of (a vessel).
We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
Another night, as we were scudding before a heavy gale of wind, and a tremendous sea rolling after us, we had the misfortune to be pooped, as the phrase is, by a wave or sea striking our stern, which stove in the cabin-windows, and rushing impetuously through the cabin, and along the main-deck, bore down all before it.
Pooping is a hazard of another nature, and is also peculiar to the process of scudding. It merely means the ship's being overtaken by waters while running from them, when the crest of a sea, broken by the resistance, is thrown inboard over the taffrail or quarter.
sostantivo
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informaleA stupid or ineffectual person.
They talk about art, and think us such poops for dressing in the evening.
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.
Etimologia
Uncertain, perhaps a shortening of nincompoop.
sostantivo
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obsoletoA poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.
Etimologia
Likely from French poupe; see poppyhead.
Forme
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- passato
- pooped
- participio passato
- pooped
- participio presente
- pooping
- 3ª persona singolare
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