poot

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

1. (babytalk, slang) To fart.

poot (plural poots)

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

Much less vulgar than fart; accepted in some circles (speaking with children) where fart would not be.

• fart
• toot

• opto-, topo, topo-

From Dutch poot.

poot (plural pote)

1. paw

• IPA^(key): /poːt/

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• Rhymes: -oːt
• Hyphenation: poot

From Middle Dutch pôte (“limb, claw”), further etymology unclear. The only known Germanic cognate is Middle Low German pote. 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.

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.”)

Shortened from ruigpoot.

poot m (plural poten, diminutive pootje n)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) homosexual

See the etymology of the main entry.

poot

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of poten
2. imperative of poten

poot

1. consciousness

poot

1. Alternative form of pot

poót

1. wrath; intense anger; rage; indignation
2. hate; hatred

• (wrath): ngitngit, muhi, pagkamuhi
• (hate): 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.