English
poop
Poop may come from Middle English poupen ‘to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow…’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500poupen‘to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1982poop
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500poupen‘to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1982poop
Earliest quotation: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me: “‘I’m goin’ down the backyard for me mornin’ poop.’”
The story
Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
Every English word from Middle English poupen
Another origin of poop
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pu‘turned away’root as named · steps between not traced
- Polishmodernpupa‘bottom, rear’uncertain
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpuppis‘stern, poop of a ship’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*puppa‘stern’reconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentpoppa
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400pope
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500poupe
- Englishtodaypoop
Today it means
verb To make a short blast on a horn.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English poupen / poop