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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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poop

/ˈpuːp/ verb, noun, interjection

Forms poops pooping pooped poup poupe puppe

  1. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To make a short blast on a horn.
  2. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To break wind.
  3. verb (informal, intransitive) To defecate. “His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.”
  4. verb (informal, transitive) To defecate in or on something. “You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.”
  5. verb (informal, reflexive) To defecate on one's person. “You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.”
  6. noun (informal) Fecal matter; feces. “The dog poop is on the grass.”
  7. noun (informal) An act of defecation.
  8. noun The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.
  9. interjection (childish, euphemistic) Expressing annoyed disappointment. “Poop. The copier's broken again.”
  10. noun 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.”
  11. verb (transitive) To tire, exhaust. “I'm pooped from working so hard.”
  12. verb (reflexive) (with out) To become tired and exhausted. “He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.”
  13. noun (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
  14. noun (nautical) The poop deck.
  15. verb (transitive) To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
  16. verb (transitive) To break over the stern of (a vessel). “We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.”
  17. noun (informal) A stupid or ineffectual person.
  18. noun (obsolete) A poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.

Synonyms

toot badger blow off break ass break wind bust ass crepitate curmur cut one cut one loose cut the cheese drop a bomb drop one's guts fart flatulate grunt guff let fluffy off the chain let loose let one go crap dirt shit shite turd nincompoop ninny dope the skinny low-down

Antonyms

bow stem forestem fore prow prore

Etymology

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.

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).

Uncertain, perhaps sound imitation.

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”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See 2d Poppy.
  2. verb To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
  3. noun A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck.

Etymology [Cf. D. poepen. See Pop.]

Etymology [F. poupe; cf. Sp. & Pg. popa, It. poppa; all fr. L. puppis.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “poop”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details