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THE HISTORY OF POOP

Either imitative, or POOP v.¹ Compare German regional (Low German) pp ( German Pup; compare Middle Low German ppeken, diminutive), Dutch poep ( Afrikaans poep) act of breaking wind.

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3. slang (orig. nursery). An act of breaking wind or of defecation; (concr.) faeces; (fig.) nonsense.

1888 Stag Party 193 When Alcy pooped, the poop was mostly tallow. 1937 E. PARTRIDGE Dict. Slang 648/2 Poop,..a breaking of wind. 1940 E. POUND Let. 8 Feb. in Pound/Lewis (1985) III. 220 This federation poop is just the same old..secret committee of shit. 1977 J. MCCLURE Sunday Hangman x. 105 Ja, we scared the poop out of him that time. 1984 Staffrider 6 No.1. 17 Let Kakgat stay out there a while longer. Smell of his last poep isn't even gone yet. 2004 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 13 Dec. 16 My other favourite doll is a baby called Jessica and she does real poop poops.

and now, i hope, thanks to the OED (to whom credit for this presentation is entirely due), that you have entirely lost the ability to laugh at poop. i do hope that you can still poop, however. can't you poop?