poot
Americannoun
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Informal. a puff of breaking wind; fart.
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Informal. an incompetent or otherwise contemptible person.
verb (used without object)
adjective
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They make silly sounds like pffft, quack, poot, blaat and faaaawaaa!!
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2012
“Cain’t nobody get a poot in sideways ’round here when Momma gets ’em goin’.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2011
Come time, the Frakes all kerplump in the old man's crate and poot up to Dallas for the Texas State Fair, "the biggest state fair in the hull U.S.A."
From Time Magazine Archive
He looks amazed at the tortilla, stares indignantly at Crosby, then inquires: "Why you poot eenk on my lonch?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Six feet off the slack, it made a poot sound and then fell back in a cloud of gray smoke and landed heavily, breaking off its nose cone.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
"Vell, you can pet my poots on dot!" nodded Hans.
From Frank Merriwell Down South by Standish, Burt L.
Questioned as to the dress, he said the lieutenant wore his "kempyne hat bulled down ofer his eyes—his blue blouse mid shoulder straps, poots unt bants."
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles
To barties mit you I'm infitet you know, Boot my pest coat ish shpouted - mine poots are no go.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
You peen bitten all der dime dose cendibedes py, und I pet me my poots you don'd keep very sdill yet avile!
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Standish, Burt L.
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners, Dey all set oop some shouts, Dey took'd him into deir Turner Hall, Und poots him a course of shprouts.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
He stood in the room with his eyes blindfolded and pooted.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Reins jiggling, horses snorting and pooting, buggy rocking and creaking, steel wheel rims hitting rocks, a caw-caw from a crow somewhere, T.R. way off in the woods, barking at something.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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