A couple of heards:

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> This verb also means, as we all know, "to break wind",
> earliest citation 1940.
>

For me, "poot" has only the meaning, "cut the cheese, slice the cheddar,
fart." OTOH, genteel black women use "Oh, poot!" in place of "Oh, shit!"
Otherwise, it's only a child's word, like "pee-pee" and "doo-doo."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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