Talk:poop on

RFD discussion: February 2023–January 2024
“ To upset the progress of; to ruin.” Tagged by EquinoxFan2022 on 5 January, not listed. Created by Unknownuser2022 on 12 November 2022. J3133 (talk) 11:21, 20 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Those two accounts are the same person, so this could be considered a self-nomination, if it matters. Anyway ....
 * Delete. I'd say this definitely exists, but I suspect the meaning is so vague that it would be difficult to pin down ... it can serve as a euphemism for shit on, which itself has several different senses, and I found a children's book just now where a dog says "I really pooped on it this time" which seems to mean "I really messed up big time". I suspect that poop is the singular and standout "bad word" among small children, and essentially can substitute for just about anything. (Though I also suspect that euphemistic usages like this  are more common in novels where characters have their lines fed to them, as opposed to real children who are unlikely to know the adult expressions these euphemisms are meant to replace.) Unless this expression is in common use by adults I don't think it can really be assigned a single definition. — Soap — 17:29, 20 February 2023 (UTC) edited 21:43, 20 February 2023 (UTC) to place a formal vote instead of just a comment
 * Yeah, I can't find any non-literal use apart from the one children's book. I think it may be that we typically don't combine metaphors with safe-for-kids euphemisms ... most kids won't understand what it's a euphemism for, and among adults it sounds awkward.  — Soap — 16:47, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Inquire further Actually I'm familiar with the general term you can say that someone is trying to < > ( sp ?)  an idea,  if we're going to have this particular usage,  i don't knhow if we have different spellings or forms,  i would require textual references  with this exact spelling before  would support keep Technicalrestrictions01 (talk) 14:01, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * That's pooh-pooh, which is not really the same thing. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 14:08, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep. The term definitely exists and I don't see how it would be SOP. Send to RFV if necessary. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:22, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree it's not sum-of-parts. This RFD was added on behalf of a new user who may not have known the difference between RFD and RFV .... it took me quite a while to figure it out myself, so I dont hold that against them.  To be honest, I didnt notice it was on the wrong page .... but since I've been thinking of this as an RFV, I've done what I could to find the required three cites and come up short-handed.  I thought earlier that I'd at least be able to find three uses of the phrase metaphorically and that they'd all have different meanings, but I couldn't even find that.
 * If someone wants to transfer this to RFV and start the clock over, I guess that's what we're supposed to do, ... and other people might remember something from a kids' TV show, or a book that I wasn't able to access. Or it may be that adults do say this and I'm just wrong.  But I honestly feel we're overthinking this, and that my original intuition is correct ...  we don't typically combine vulgar metaphors with child-speak, and when we do, it's meaning is likely dependent on context.  So, even if we do find three uses, I expect they won't share a precise meaning.  — Soap — 09:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
 * This appears to use it to mean something like "give bad luck to". 2601:147:4600:3880:3459:2B61:1A8C:AFFE
 * Yes, but only because the writer sets up the context by using the well-known phrase the stars smile on us (which we have as sense 5 of the verb smile).... without the setup, I dont think the readers would have understood this. — Soap — 08:20, 29 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Can we consider this an RFV, so that we can declare it failed? Its just going to languish here otherwise and it doesnt have consensus for deletion as an RFD.  But I realize the original poster didnt do that, but they probably didnt know the difference as many new and infrequent users.   I dont really want to put this through an RFV as it would seem like process for the sake of process, but if that's what we need to do, I'll go ahead and start the RFV if nobody else does. — Soap — 13:58, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * '''Redirected to poop Denazz (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2024 (UTC)