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poo

[ poo ]

/ pu /

noun Slang.

verb (used without object), pooed, poo·ing.Slang.

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Words nearby poo

pony truss, pony up, Ponzi, Ponzi scheme, ponzu, poo, pooch, pood, poodle, poodle-faker, poof

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Example sentences from the Web for poo

As trees bid farewell to their leaves, their foliage releases a symphony of smells, which to our untrained noses can smell like anything from candy to dog poo.
Why autumn air smells so delicious and sweet|Sara Kiley Watson|October 13, 2020|Popular Science
While the bubonic plaque swept through Europe, people were basically throwing poo out the window because there was no sewage system.
This scientist wants to know how racial discrimination gets ‘under the skin’|Esther Landhuis|March 18, 2020|Science News For Students
Then Poo and other leaders began organizing them and won basic protections in many states.
Finally, Home Care Workers Start Fighting Back|Monica Potts|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hot right now: “How come we say poo and pee but not poop and peep?”
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Poo serves on numerous boards, including Momsrising, National Jobs With Justice, and the National Council on Aging.
See Who’s Coming to Women in the World 2013: Speakers & Participants||March 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
At after we lost him, these bad times coom on, an' neaw, aw think we're poo'd deawn as nee to th' greawnd as ony body can be.
Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine|Edwin Waugh
Iss, poo MD im sorry for poo Pdfr's friends; and this is a very surprising event.
The Journal to Stella|Jonathan Swift
The two negatives mo and poo, are of great use in the spoken language.
Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton|John Barrow
Poo (from) enters as a prefix to words that denote repugnance, or things from which we ought to be averse.
The Coming Race|Edward Bulwer Lytton
Snoo and Poo, husband and wife, had suddenly fascinated him in Villiers Street that morning.
A Bed of Roses|W. L. George

British Dictionary definitions for poo

poo

/ (puː) /

interjection, noun, verb

another spelling of pooh

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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