poo
Americannoun
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poos
plural
verb (used without object)
interjection
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of poo
First recorded in 1955–60; of expressive origin
Example Sentences
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Water vole volunteers 'get very excited by flattened poo'
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I've never been so excited to see a poo," says urban rewilding officer Pia Trevelyan-Ashby.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Trevelyan-Ashby says she spends an "abnormal amount of time looking for poo", but says it is the best way of getting an indication of how the rodent's population is doing.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He says the idea came to him in 2023, after he unexpectedly found himself caught up at London Pride while on his way to work, wearing "gross bird-feeding clothes, covered in bird poo".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
“It’s foul. Still, that’s what you do when you love an animal. You let them poo on your deck, I suppose.”
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
"It's glitz, it's glamour, it's fishing poos out the bathtub," Hague says of her daily routine.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
Appearing at a genetic engineering competition with a briefcase of colorful poos was a way to start conversations with the people building this new field.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 10, 2021
“You can put them in the bath so you have poos racing against each other.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2019
Meeting Dave gives him a chance to reveal the real Kim, not a god but just one of the guys: he pees and poos.
From Time ● Dec. 17, 2014
And he did three little poos under the sink and I picked them up and flushed them down the toilet and then I got back into the bath again because it was warm and nice.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
"You might see a few white dots on me because I get pooed on nearly every day being down here."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Back in the day they didn't make a sound – even when an elephant pooed on set.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2012
Compare this to, say, Kings of Leon who recently pulled out of gigs citing a "torn bicep" at one, a burnt tourbus at another and – famously – being pooed on by pigeons at another.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2011
One episode revolved around finding out who had pooed on a chair and who was going to clean it up.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
Shale pooed from the cliffs off toward Charmouth.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“You can use DNA tracing to figure out which dog is pooing on the lawn,” one landlord suggested.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Or is public pooing an extreme act of rebellion?
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2018
“But it was running around throwing up on things, pooing, peeing, barking all night, running in circles hysterically excited, and sleeping for three hours.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2016
And, yes, we have been pooing all wrong.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2015
"It's disgusting to them because you are talking about people pooing themselves. But it's an everyday reality for us."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2015
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