What do booboo and poopoo mean?
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GrapeApe
>When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
That you are doody.
jan sand
I have heard booboo is a mistake.
Poopoo second hand digestive matter.
Jan Sand
Spehro Pefhany
> When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
A boo-boo is often a bruise or a cut. Poo-poo is caa-caa. I've noticed
that kids pick up rude terms very quickly. I recently saw a 5-year-old who
doesn't normally swear (using adult words anyway) hit his head and exclaim
"Holy shits!". I wasn't sure whether to have a talk with him about the
inappropriate plural or the swearing. At least the circumstances of
the usage were appropriate. He does call his friends "poo-poo head" when
in a foul potty-mouth mood.
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grap...@aol.comjunk (GrapeApe) wrote:
> >
> >When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
>
> That you are doody.
>
add...@my-deja.com
"Spehro Pefhany" <sp...@interlog.com> wrote:
> The renowned add...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
>
> A boo-boo is often a bruise or a cut. Poo-poo is caa-caa. I've noticed
> that kids pick up rude terms very quickly. I recently saw a 5-year-old
who
> doesn't normally swear (using adult words anyway) hit his head and
exclaim
> "Holy shits!". I wasn't sure whether to have a talk with him about the
> inappropriate plural or the swearing. At least the circumstances of
> the usage were appropriate. He does call his friends "poo-poo head"
when
> in a foul potty-mouth mood.
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
common expression or you just made it up?
peter
| In article <Ryzd6.20124$KP3.6...@news3.rdc1.on.home.com>,
| "Spehro Pefhany" <sp...@interlog.com> wrote:
|> The renowned add...@my-deja.com wrote:
|> > When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
|>
|> A boo-boo is often a bruise or a cut. Poo-poo is caa-caa. I've noticed
|> that kids pick up rude terms very quickly. I recently saw a 5-year-old
but to poo-poo an idea is something quite different from the internal
accusative.
| What's caa-caa? Is it used by kids too? What's potty-mouth? Is this a
| common expression or you just made it up?
there is also cack...
as my father says, feet are not to be sniffed at.
peter
Spehro Pefhany
> What's caa-caa? Is it used by kids too?
Pooh-pooh, caa-caa (however it is spelled), and perhaps "number 2" are the
most common terms used by children and parents to refer to feces, at least
here in Canada. I can't find many references on Google, perhaps there is a
spelling that is better for caa-caa. The latter seems to get many hits for
the Canadian Automobile Association.
As an aside, a humorous term for homosexuals, according to _The Big Book
of Filth_ is "cackpipe cosmonaut". Another is "foop" (poof backwards).
> What's potty-mouth? Is this a
> common expression or you just made it up?
A common expression. A potty these days is a device that is used for
toilet training young children. Google finds over 3,000 hits for
"potty-mouth". It is a mildly disapproving term for someone who is using
crude language. "Don't be a potty-mouth".
N.Mitchum
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> When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
I have no kids, so I can only guess: A "boo-boo" is kid-speak for
a mistake or an injury. "Poo-poo" is feces. I can easily
understand why children would call one another turds, but I don't
see why, if my definition is correct, they would call one another
"boo-boos." Perhaps confusing the two words?
----NM
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"Spehro Pefhany" <sp...@interlog.com> wrote:
> A boo-boo is often a bruise or a cut.
Sometimes; but note that Jan is also right, that it is a mistake,
although perhaps not in the language of five-year olds. I think that
the mistake sense is older and that the injury sense derives from it.
Gary Williams
jan sand
When I was a kid,doody was used to describe a bowel movement.
Probably derived from doing one's duty - that is defecating at the
proper time and place.
Jan Sand
Spehro Pefhany
> Sometimes; but note that Jan is also right, that it is a mistake,
> although perhaps not in the language of five-year olds. I think that
> the mistake sense is older and that the injury sense derives from it.
Yes, I agree completely. I intended to extend Jan's definition, not
replace it.
J Cheung
"jan sand" <jan...@mindspring.com> wrote
> add...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > grap...@aol.comjunk (GrapeApe) wrote:
> >> >
> >> >When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
> >>
> >> That you are doody.
> >>
> >What's doody? Is it used by kids too?
> Probably derived from doing one's duty - that is defecating at the
> proper time and place.
I thought it is 'poopoo' that is used to mean defecating, while 'weewee'
means urinating.
John, Singapore
jan sand
<stch...@singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>
>
>I thought it is 'poopoo' that is used to mean defecating, while 'weewee'
>means urinating.
>
>John, Singapore
>
That too.
Jan Sand
GrapeApe
Spehro Pefhany
> A boo-boo is a mistake. A poopoo can be a booboo.
A kid can be a boo-boo as well, but that concept is a bit sophisticated
for kids of the age that use this kind of language.
Bun Mui
> What do booboo and poopoo mean?
>
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>When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
Booboo is Yogi bear's side kick.
Po not PooPoo is a member of Teletubbies.
Bun Mui
GrapeApe
>
>A kid can be a boo-boo as well, but that concept is a bit sophisticated
>for kids of the age that use this kind of language.
But they could call each other poopoos, and therefore, booboos. If a kid calls
you a poopoo or a booboo, it means you are a doody.
GrapeApe
>Po not PooPoo is a member of Teletubbies.
Po might most likely say 'uh oh!' rather than boo boo, whether the boo boo was
a poo poo or not.
W. Wesley Groleau
> My eight-year old just got off of restriction for telling his teacher,
> "Up your butt, 'round your boobs, down the hatch, and out your tubes."
> I have no idea where they learn this stuff.
They get up at 3 AM, fire up the computer, and read alt.usage.english
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Peter Moylan
>My eight-year old just got off of restriction for telling his teacher,
>
>"Up your butt, 'round your boobs, down the hatch, and out your tubes."
>
>I have no idea where they learn this stuff.
Not much has changed. When I was eight years old, it was
Milk, milk, lemonade,
Around the corner chocolate's made.
with the appropriate pointing motions.
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Steve Hayes
>But they could call each other poopoos, and therefore, booboos. If a kid calls
>you a poopoo or a booboo, it means you are a doody.
Does that mean you are a little d00d?
Steve Hayes
http://www.suite101.com/myhome.cfm/methodius
Spehro Pefhany
>>When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
> Booboo is Yogi bear's side kick.
So, if Booboo happens across one of his poo-poos in the woods, does he say
"Howdy, doody"?
> Po not PooPoo is a member of Teletubbies.
Fidit-Fidit poo-poo.
Evan Kirshenbaum
> In article <Ryzd6.20124$KP3.6...@news3.rdc1.on.home.com>,
> "Spehro Pefhany" <sp...@interlog.com> wrote:
>
> > A boo-boo is often a bruise or a cut.
>
> Sometimes; but note that Jan is also right, that it is a mistake,
> although perhaps not in the language of five-year olds. I think
> that the mistake sense is older and that the injury sense derives
> from it.
MWCD/ol disagrees with you, giving the order of senses as
1 : a usually trivial injury (as a bruise or scratch) -- used
especially by or of a child
2 : MISTAKE, BLUNDER
and dating the earlier sense back only to 1953.
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J Cheung
> "J Cheung" stch...@singnet.com.sg> wrote:
> >I thought it is 'poopoo' that is used to mean defecating, while 'weewee'
> >means urinating.
> >
> That too.
To me, 'booboo' means silly mistake. It that too to you as well ?
John
Jerry Friedman
"Spehro Pefhany" <sp...@interlog.com> wrote:
> The renowned add...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > What's caa-caa? Is it used by kids too?
>
> Pooh-pooh, caa-caa (however it is spelled), and perhaps "number 2" are
the
> most common terms used by children and parents to refer to feces, at
least
> here in Canada. I can't find many references on Google, perhaps there
is a
> spelling that is better for caa-caa. The latter seems to get many hits
for
> the Canadian Automobile Association.
Try "caca". This term seems to be fairly common, including in several
other European languages, but I don't remember it from my childhood.
...
> > What's potty-mouth? Is this a
> > common expression or you just made it up?
>
> A common expression. A potty these days is a device that is used for
> toilet training young children. Google finds over 3,000 hits for
> "potty-mouth". It is a mildly disapproving term for someone who is
using
> crude language. "Don't be a potty-mouth".
I agree, except that the only meaning I know for "potty" is toilet (that
is, for pedants out there, a receptacle, provided with a drain, for
excrement). A childish term, overly common among adults in our
hypocoristic age.
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Evan Kirshenbaum
> I agree, except that the only meaning I know for "potty" is toilet
> (that is, for pedants out there, a receptacle, provided with a
> drain, for excrement). A childish term, overly common among adults
> in our hypocoristic age.
The only thing that makes it childish is that it's a diminutive.
"Pot" (originally for the receptacle one kept under the bed) is used
for toilets, as evidenced by "shit or get off the pot".
My two-year-old, who is starting to get interested in such things,
distinguishes between the "big potty" (namely, the toilet) and the
"little potty" (the potty chair we got for him).
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Richard
Poppycock!
The "only" meaning? You must be going potty to make such an assertion.
When I were wee, my potty was plastic and featured Donald Duck's head.
I was able to piss his brains out. It didn't have a drain (would it
have been a brain-drain?).
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Alec "Skitt" P.
"Evan Kirshenbaum" <ev...@garrett.hpl.hp.com> wrote in message
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> Jerry Friedman <jfried...@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> > I agree, except that the only meaning I know for "potty" is toilet
> > (that is, for pedants out there, a receptacle, provided with a
> > drain, for excrement). A childish term, overly common among adults
> > in our hypocoristic age.
>
> The only thing that makes it childish is that it's a diminutive.
> "Pot" (originally for the receptacle one kept under the bed) is used
> for toilets, as evidenced by "shit or get off the pot".
>
> My two-year-old, who is starting to get interested in such things,
> distinguishes between the "big potty" (namely, the toilet) and the
> "little potty" (the potty chair we got for him).
Some clarification from MWCD10:
Main Entry: 2 potty
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural potties
Date: circa 1942
: a small child's pot for urination or defecation
Main Entry: pot·ty-chair
Pronunciation: -"cher, -"char
Function: noun
Date: 1943
: a child's chair having an open seat under which a
receptacle is placed for toilet training
For those of the British persuasion, there is:
Main Entry: 1 pot·ty
Pronunciation: 'pä-tE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): pot·ti·er; -est
Etymology: probably from 1pot
Date: circa 1860
1 British : TRIVIAL, INSIGNIFICANT
2 chiefly British : slightly crazy
3 : SNOBBISH
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Donna Richoux
> I agree, except that the only meaning I know for "potty" is toilet (that
> is, for pedants out there, a receptacle, provided with a drain, for
> excrement). A childish term, overly common among adults in our
> hypocoristic age.
When it's a separate device it is also called a potty chair. Altavista
image search yields this example:
http://www.viewimages.com/viewimage/?imageid=13715&promotionid=1&partner
id=2&type=results
In particular, there is no drain, but a pot. The small size is
considered less intimidating than a toilet, and some find the
portability convenient, too.
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grap...@aol.comjunk (GrapeApe) wrote:
> >
> >When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
>
They mean, "These are the naughtiest thing I can think of right now so
that's what you are!"
Poo poo generally means "fecal matter" but being fairly basic childhood
slang, it has other meanings. Boo boo means "mild injury" among most
kids I know, but has other meanings including penis and poo poo. Poo poo
is also called poop, doo doo, and kaka.
When I was teaching kindergarten, a kid ran up to me to tattle on a
friend: "He used the A word!"
I've never much panicked over childrens' language, so I tried not to
smile and asked which A word she meant -- apple? antelope?
She replied, "Booty."
She knew it was naughty. Sometimes, that's all they need to know to give
a word meaning.
Mary MacTavish
http://www.prado.com/~iris
Earle D Jones
> When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
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A "booboo" is a slang word for "mistake".
Among US presidents and presidential candidates, I can only remember
three who used the word, "booboo".
The first was Barry Goldwater, who, when running against L B Johnson,
said something like, "We can't reduce the US military -- that would be a
booboo."
Reagan said the same thing (roughly).
And Dan Quayle, who couldn't spell potato, used the word several times.
Can you imagine someone like John Kennedy saying to Kruschchev, "If you
don't take your missiles out of Cuba, that would be a big booboo"?
I must say that I would find it very hard to vote for anyone who used
the word "booboo".
earle
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(BTW, Poopoo is what I would like to do on those who use the word
booboo.)
David Hadley
>But they could call each other poopoos, and therefore, booboos. If a kid calls
>you a poopoo or a booboo, it means you are a doody.
But a doody is similar to a doo-dah which is a lot like a wossaname or
an oohgymaflip.
--
David Hadley
Matti Lamprhey
>
> But a doody is similar to a doo-dah which is a lot like a wossaname or
> an oohgymaflip.
I like the German version of these words: dinksboomps [sp?]
Matti
R Fontana
> Can you imagine someone like John Kennedy saying to Kruschchev, "If you
> don't take your missiles out of Cuba, that would be a big booboo"?
I just tried, but he morphed into Mayor Quimby of Springfield.
David Hadley
Very good. I like it.
Is there a posh name for this sort of word or phrase?
The doubts about spelling are interesting too. These seem to belong to
that group of words that are often used, but rarely written.
For example, I've seen wossname spelt in lots of different ways. There
is even wossaname, whatsaname, whatsitname and several other
variations.
--
David Hadley
Angel B
> >
> >When kids say you're a booboo or a poopoo, what do they mean?
Bj j