Savage vs Poop - What's the difference?
savage | poop |
wild; not cultivated
* Dryden
barbaric; not civilized
* 1719-
* E. D. Griffin
fierce and ferocious
brutal, vicious or merciless
(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251
(figuratively) A defiant person.
To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
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, title= (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
(obsolete) To make savage.
* South
To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
* We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
To embark a ship over the stern.
(obsolete) To make a short blast on a horn
(obsolete) To break wind.
To defecate.
(often, childish) Excrement.
* The dog took a poop on the grass.
The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
(US, dated) information, facts.
A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
* Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.
To tire, exhaust. Often used with out .
* I'm pooped from working so hard
* He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.
As a proper noun savage
is .As a noun poop is
the stern of a ship or poop can be (often|childish) excrement or poop can be a set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process or poop can be a slothful person.As a verb poop is
to break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck or poop can be (obsolete|intransitive) to make a short blast on a horn or poop can be to tire, exhaust often used with out .savage
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a savage wilderness
- savage berries of the wood
- savage manners
- I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
- What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
- savage beasts
- a savage spirit
- He gave the dog a savage kick.
- The woman was killed in a savage manner.
- - I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !
Noun
(en noun)- 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
Verb
(transitive)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
- Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Anagrams
*poop
English
Etymology 1
Recorded since circa 1405, from (etyl) poupe, from (etyl) poppa, from (etyl) puppis, all meaning "stern of a ship".Derived terms
* poop deckSynonyms
* sternAntonyms
* bowVerb
(en verb)Etymology 2
Origin uncertain, possibly from (etyl) poupen.Verb
(en verb)- His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.
Noun
- 2001 , , Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 157 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001
- Two minutes passed - five - seven- ten. "Poop'! ' Poop !" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station.