poot

Americanism, probably onomatopoeic, or connected to poop. Compare toot.

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• Rhymes: -uːt

poot (third-person singular simple present poots, present participle pooting, simple past and past participle pooted)

1. (childish) To fart.

   Synonyms: fart, toot

poot (plural poots)

1. (childish) A fart, perhaps a relatively quiet one.

   Synonyms: fart, toot

   • 2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart, →ISBN:

     all that stretching and bending will often produce an unwitting poot or two.

poot

1. A mild expression of disgust or frustration.
   • 1994, Pamela Morsi, Runabout, Thorndike, M.E.: G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 37:

     "Oh, poot! I missed again," she complained with a pretty pout.

• The term is less vulgar than fart, and is accepted in some circles (speaking with children) where fart would not be.

• “poot”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “poot, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “poot, n. and int.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• topo, Toop, topo-, OPTO, opto-

From Dutch poot, from Middle Dutch pôte.

• IPA^(key): /pʊə̯t/

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poot (plural pote)

1. paw

• IPA^(key): /poːt/

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• Hyphenation: poot
• Rhymes: -oːt

From Middle Dutch pôte (“limb, claw”), further etymology unclear. The only known Germanic cognate is Middle Low German pote (itself having been borrowed as Danish pote, Norwegian Bokmål pote, Norwegian Nynorsk pote and German Pfote). Outside Germanic, Old French pote and Catalan pota may be related.

poot m (plural poten, diminutive pootje n)

1. limb (arm or leg) of an animal (sometimes human)

   Spinnen hebben acht poten.

   Spiders have eight legs.

2. (informal) leg or foot

   Geen poot hebben om op te staan.

   Not having a leg to stand on.

3. (informal) hand

   Blijf met je poten van me af!

   Keep your hands off me!

4. leg of an object, e.g. furniture

   Een kruk met drie poten.

   A stool with three legs.

5. (derogatory) homosexual man, fag, poof (shortened form of ruigpoot)

Although using poot to denote limbs of humans in normally considered rude, there are some exceptions in case of idioms like Op zijn achterste poten staan. (“To get up on one's hind legs.”)

• Afrikaans: poot
• Jersey Dutch: plôt

Shortened from ruigpoot.

poot m (plural poten, diminutive pootje n)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) homosexual man

• broodpoot
• potenrammen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

poot

1. inflection of poten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

poot

1. consciousness

poot

1. Alternative form of pot

poót (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜂᜆ᜔)

1. wrath; intense anger; rage; indignation

   Synonyms: ngitngit, muhi, pagkamuhi

2. hate; hatred

   Synonyms: suklam, pagksuklam

See po.

poot

1. moon

• This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is po.

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.