Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excrement.
- noun An act of defecating.
- intransitive verb To defecate.
- idiom (go poo-poo) To defecate.
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- noun childish
poo (feces )
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In Channelview, Texas, TheAdventures of Super Diaper Baby, by George Beard, Harold Hutchins and Dav Pilkey, was removed from grade schools after parents complained when their 6-year-old was suspended for calling a classmate "poo-poo head," Maycock says.
Book battles heat up over censorship vs. selection in school 2011
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She's like Rush and Hannity, needing to do little more than pontificate and poo-poo from the sidelines to stay the darling of the rootin'-tootin'-moose-shootin 'set.
Plouffe: Palin would be 'catastrophic' as 2012 GOP nominee 2009
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Then those same people (the ones talking to us, not the ones parking like poo-poo heads) came over one day and said that they had taken up a nice, fat collection of money and were gonna give it to us to help us build a driveway whenever we were ready.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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When we moved in they came right on over and told us ahead of time that there were always people that would park like poo-poo heads (my word, not theirs) no matter what they did.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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Then those same people (the ones talking to us, not the ones parking like poo-poo heads) came over one day and said that they had taken up a nice, fat collection of money and were gonna give it to us to help us build a driveway whenever we were ready.
Why we built a driveway. The Curious Holts 2009
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Shorter what the GOP really means: “nanny-nanny boo-boo, stick your butt in poo-poo”!!
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All those who poo-poo the Vallarta area don't live here.
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I think there are many of us less eloquent than Nabokov who have similarly transformed the "Dick and Jane" type of stories into real literature as children -- that is, something that summons up our own imagination in far richer ways than the adults who poo-poo them ever understand.
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Shorter what the GOP really means: “nanny-nanny boo-boo, stick your butt in poo-poo”!!
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When we moved in they came right on over and told us ahead of time that there were always people that would park like poo-poo heads (my word, not theirs) no matter what they did.
Why we built a driveway. The Curious Holts 2009
nycanthro commented on the word poo-poo
In its hyphenated form, this is a verb meaning 'to thumb one's nose at,' 'scoff,' 'mock' or 'treat with derision.'
March 3, 2009
yarb commented on the word poo-poo
Also pooh-pooh.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word poo-poo
You know yarb, I think it may be the only spelling. That's why I had to define it myself, without citations from 19th century novelists. Please don't mention this to dontcry -- she already called me a dullard.
March 3, 2009
yarb commented on the word poo-poo
That's OK nyco. I like your scatalogical interpretation.
March 3, 2009
nycanthro commented on the word poo-poo
Unfortunaately I can't delete the term, as I only added the "definition". That stinks. LOL
March 3, 2009