5. The word poop comes from the Middle English word poupen or popen, which used to be the root of the word we now call a fart. Clearly poop has onomatopoeic origins.
Origin uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”).
Feces is the scientific terminology, while the term stool is also commonly used in medical contexts. Outside of scientific contexts, these terms are less common, with the most common layman's term being "poop" or "poo".
Farts — also called flatus (say: FLAY-tuss) or intestinal (say: in-TESS-tuh-null) gas — are made of, well, gas! When you eat, you don't swallow just your food.
In the 1980s we start really seeing poo in British English--which was pretty much what I'd thought. The count-noun use (a poo, rather than some poo) is recorded in the OED as 'chiefly British' (indeed it is).
Dated at about 50,000 years old, based on the layer in which it was found, this is the oldest human excrement ever identified. Ms Sistiaga said her samples easily pre-date other fossilised faeces, belonging to modern humans (Homo sapiens) and found in Egyptian mummies and ancient Greek latrines.
The word “fart” comes from the Old English word “feortan,” which means “to break wind.”
Poop is a somewhat childish word for feces.
If you're having 'period poops', it means you're experiencing diarrhea, constipation, or foul-smelling poop around the time of your period. Period poops are pretty normal. Many women experience this monthly change in their toilet habits, especially if they're prone to emotional changes during their cycle.
Newborns have a greenish-black, tarry, sticky poop that resembles motor oil. This is called meconium and is made up of amniotic fluid, mucus, skin cells and other things ingested into the utero. Two to four days after birth, you should notice “transitional stools” that tend to be green and less tacky than meconium.
vince. a word used to indicate that one has just farted.
The current Guinness book of world record's holder for the world's longest fart is a man name Bernard Clemmens of London. This man managed to let off one continuous fart for exactly two minutes and forty two seconds, a feat that has yet to be even close to replicated by other fart enthusiasts.
Discovery of the oldest human fecal fossils, some 50,000 years old, suggests that Neanderthals balanced their meat-heavy diet with plenty of veggies.
In their ancient cities, such as Eshnunna and Nuzi, archaeologists have found brick chairs coated with water-repellent bitumen. Waste would have dropped through an open slot at the base and traveled through clay pipes to cesspits.
What Is Meconium? In a nutshell, meconium is your baby's first poop. Meconium is a nearly odorless, greenish-black, gooey substance that's passed during your baby's first few bowel movements, often during the first 24 hours after his birth.
Rick Schwartz, ambassador and keeper for the San Diego Zoo, dug into his memories of the worst farts he has ever encountered to select the sea lion as the number the producer of the foulest wind on earth.
Less than 1 percent of their makeup is what makes farts stink. The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second. A person produces about half a liter of farts a day.
Foist. Definition - a silent fart.
(Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
discarded, asked to leave, superseded: "Have you been picked for the footy team this weekend?" "No, I've been cracked off" OR "Is Julie still going out with Brian" "No, she cracked him off" - Comes from the sport of campdrafting where, if you are disqualified, a whip is cracked to let you know and you are said to have ...
Some child-friendly potty words, proper and slang, for urine and urination include: Pee, or pee-pee. Wee, or wee-wee. Tinkle.
The terms "number one" and "number two" for going to the Toilet (those American call it a bathroom- a place where you wash?) is quiet old. or those unaware, number one is urinating, number two is defecating - and down to rhyming slang, as number two rhymes with poo.