by cheeseface1423 on November 23rd, 2008

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Why is poop called poop

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  • by Galeanda on November 23rd, 2008

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    First you start with the Poop Deck

    The poop is the stern of a ship and the poop deck is the raised deck in the aft of old sailing ships. The word comes from the Latin puppis, meaning stern, via French.

    English use of poop dates to the late 15th century. From William Caxton’s 1489 translation of The Book of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye:

    The pouppe whiche is the hindermost partye of the shippe.

    The term poop deck is somewhat newer, dating to William Sutherland’s 1717 Britain’s Glory: or, Shipbuilding Unvail’d:

    All the other Quick work, or Weather work, to have of white, and of black; that is, the Forecastle Deck, and Quarter Deck, Poop Deck, all Plansheers, and about the Timber-heads.

    The idea that the poop deck is so named because that is where the heads were located is wrong, both nautically and linguistically. The head, or bathroom, on a ship is so named because the traditional location for them is in the bow of the ship, not the stern. With the wind at one’s back on a sailing ship, locating the toilets in the front would carry the waste forward, away from the ship. Locating them in the stern could produce unfortunate results.

    The sense of poop meaning excrement has its origins in nursery slang and is probably echoic in origin, although there are cognates in Dutch and German so it is possible that it is borrowed from those languages. The verb to poop, meaning to make a sound like a horn, can be found in Middle English. From Chaucer’s c.1390 Nun’s Priest’s Tale:

    Of bras they broghten bemes, and of box, Of horn, of boon, in whiche they blewe and powped.
    (Of brass they brought trumpets, and of boxwood, Of horn, of bone, in which they blew and pooped.)

    The verb, meaning to break wind, dates to the late 17th century. From the 1689 Gazophylacium Anglicanum:

    To poop, from the Belg. Poepen, to fart softly: both from the sound.

    The sense meaning to defecate is even newer, late 19th century. From F.W.P. Jago’s Ancient Language and Dialect of Cornwall:

    Poop, or Poopy, to go to stool. (Said by children.)

    (Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition)

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  • by LynfromNM on November 23rd, 2008

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    The Online Etymology Dictionary says:

    poop "excrement," 1744, a children's euphemism, probably of imitative origin; cf. the same word in the sense "to break wind softly," attested from 1721, earlier "to make a short blast on a horn" (c.1386).

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  • by Trouser Snake on November 23rd, 2008

    Trouser Snake

    poop,crap,shit,feces,doo doo why does it matter lol

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  • by TK9Claire on January 26th, 2011

    TK9Claire

    The original term was being misused, so some very bright men got together to figure out a solution. After days of conferring, they came up with a solution. They decided to simply spell the existing word backwards. The new word POOP has stuck ever since.

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  • by cscharger on November 2nd, 2010

    cscharger

    because poop stands for palontony olakus ostrist polikony

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  • by kathryn518 on April 16th, 2010

    kathryn518

    poop is called poop because it is called poop i dont really no why

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  • by kathryn518 on April 16th, 2010

    kathryn518

    poop is called poop because it is called poop i dont really no why

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  • by kathryn518 on April 16th, 2010

    kathryn518

    poop is called poop because it is called poop i dont really no why

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  • by kathryn518 on April 16th, 2010

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    poop is called poop because it is called poop i dont really no why

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