poot

American  

[poot] / put /

noun

• poots
  plural

1. Informal. a puff of breaking wind; fart.

2. Informal. an incompetent or otherwise contemptible person.

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verb (used without object)

pooting, pooted

1. Informal. to break wind; fart.

adjective

1. Informal. incompetent or otherwise contemptible.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• pooty
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• poots
  plural

Example Sentences

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poot poots pooted pooting

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

He looks amazed at the tortilla, stares indignantly at Crosby, then inquires: "Why you poot eenk on my lonch?"

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Burt L. Standish

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 Charles Godfrey Leland

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 Charles King

Und ash de poots go valkin', like de buds go mit de stem, It vollowed dot de lady had to valk apout in dem.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland

You vatch your poots vile you are in New Chersey, for plenty of dose cavalry-men are all around here.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

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