dookie

[Mark A. Mandel]

Arnold wrote:
>>>>>
 a small quibble.  while "take a shit/dookie/piss" are obviously
count-noun uses of these nouns, these uses are constrained to a small
number of idiomatic contexts, and these uses don't predict "free"
count-noun uses.  but we've seen some of those for "dookie", so it gets
to be a count noun independent of the "take" idiom.

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An even smaller quibble: These count nouns refer not to the substance but to
the event:
        "After my third drink, I had to take another piss."

And they are not all taboo: take a walk, take a drink, take a nap.

-- Mark A. Mandel
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