subs. (old).—1. A worthless creature, a weakling, a NINCUMPOOP (q.v.); (2) the posteriors: see STERN and verb. sense 3; and (3) the face (cf. SHAKESPEARE, 1 Henry IV., Falstaff to Bardolph, &c., ‘Thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the POOP, but ’tis in the nose of thee’).
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 1 Henry IV., iii. 4. Fals. Thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in the POOP, but ’tis in the nose of thee.
1706. WARD, The Wooden World Dissected, 67. He crawls up upon Deck, to the Piss-dale, where, while he manages his Whip-staff with one hand, he scratches his POOP with the other.
Verb. (old).—1. To overcome; to be set down.
1551. STILL, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, ii. 1. But there ich was POWPTE indeed.
1609. SHAKESPEARE, Pericles, iv. 2. She quickly POOPED him, she made him roast meat for worms.
1606. Wily Beguiled [HAWKINS, The Origin of the English Drama, III. 310]. I saw them close together at POOP-NODDY in her closet.
3. (vulgar).—To break wind: also as subs.—BAILEY (1728).
